Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lymph, used in vaccination, obtained from calves.
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Examples
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Now that arm-to-arm vaccination is no longer practiced, but fresh calf-lymph used for each child, these accidental inoculations are a thing of the past.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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[6] Antivaccinators constantly allude to calf-lymph as "filth"; if lymph is filth, then I am able to assure them that each one of them has about three liters of it in his own body.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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Now that arm-to-arm vaccination is no longer practiced, but fresh calf-lymph used for each child, these accidental inoculations are a thing of the past.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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Antivaccinators constantly allude to calf-lymph as ` ` filth ''; if lymph is filth, then I am able to assure them that each one of them has about three liters of it in his own body.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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