LYMPHOLOGY, MEDICAL IGNORANCE/IGNORAMICS AND THE NOBEL CONNECTION: Howard Florey, Joshua Lederberg, and Françoise Barre-Sinoussi

Abstract

Intriguing interludes with Nobel laureateshave marked the history of Lymphology.Bounded (or rather unbounded) by a mutualfascination with ignorance and the unknown,their curiosity converged around microbes,infections, and host responses mediated by thelymphatic system. These studies transcendeda simple “molecular model of life.”