Abstract
I Propose to consider some of the experimental data concerned with transfer of lymphoid cells and the possible bearing on clinical situations, together with the results of a few very tentative trials which we among others have made in this field. The subject of lymphoid cell replacement is perhaps a rather heterodox one. The classical clinical approach to the lymphatic system has for many decades been one of hostility and destruction. The surgeons have found happy hunting grounds in the adenoid tissue around the pharynx and in the vermiform appendix; radiotherapists have rejoiced to see all manner of lymphoid swellings vanish beneath their rays while in more recent times physicians, armed with ACTH and an array of steroid hormones, have hastened to curb and suppress the activities of the lymphoid system whenever an excuse could be found. The notion, therefore, of actually replacing lost lymphoid cells is a new one. It has been calculated that the total volume of lymphatic tissue in a healthy adult is of t...
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