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...lymphatic system comprises up to a hundred scattered lymph glands, or "nodes." Some lie deep within the body, others close to the skin. The lymph nodes produce some of the white cells that help the body fight off invading bacteria. They are favorite sites for colonization by cancer cells, and the whole lymphatic system may fall victim to a cancerlike process. (Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled...
...Pacific it is contracted from the bite of a mosquito, which deposits microscopic juvenile forms of a nematode, Wuchereria bancrofti, in the skin. In the human victim, the roundworms mature to a length of 1½ in. to 3 in. They live and multiply almost exclusively in lymph nodes, especially the big nodes in the arm pits, groin and scrotum. Their tiny offspring are picked up from a victim's bloodstream by a feeding mosquito-soon to infect another victim...
...John N. Snyder of Catonsville, Md., who treated five cases in a single family. First victim was a thoroughly scratched ten-year-old boy, who went to the doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched by the family kitten...
...Miller's work suggests that the human thymus, in the first weeks of life, produces the basic cells that are then distributed to other white-cell factories, in lymph nodes and the spleen, where cells can be mass-produced at short notice to protect the body against invading microbes or foreign tissue. Once the master cells have been distributed, the thymus seems to have done its main job. In adult life, and even in later childhood, the gland can be removed with little apparent effect. Perhaps it eventually becomes use less, despite its vital early role...
...Naval Academy's hospital in Annapolis last week, a dozen midshipmen who did not seem critically ill were confined to bed and getting intensive care. In mid-February they had begun to feel lethargic. Then they had developed slight fevers, headaches and sore throats. The lymph glands in their necks and armpits swelled. Medical Officer Edward C. Keene was not surprised-he would have been surprised if he had not had a rash of cases. The ailing mids were victims of infectious mononucleosis, a mysterious disease that breaks out about six weeks after infection. And infection most commonly occurs...