Do Not Forget Your Lymphatics: Pathways to Fluid Transport, Detoxification and Immune Surveillance Bruno Chikly, MD, DO & Alaya Chikly, LMT - Adapted from Massage, 2016, Aug, Issue 243, 38-42

Much has been discovered about the lymphatics system since it was originally discovered in 1622 1; from its description by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), who stated that the “spirituous fluid” present within the cerebrospinal fluid travels throughout the entire body and is returned to the blood by the lymph vessels 2, to the modern rediscovery of the lymphatics in the CNS 3, and the recent description of the glymphatic system...