TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CERVICAL LYMPHATICS

12 August 1916

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. LXVII (7) , 499-504
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1916.02590070023008

Abstract

Modern students of tuberculosis believe that tuberculous infection usually comes in childhood and that it may develop then, or be quiescent, or be cured. If quiescent, it may show renewed activity at later periods of life. Baldwin¹says: Childhood is the time of infection, youth the time of superinfection, and that from extension of the primary disease. McCleave²says: It is now generally conceded that infection with the tubercle bacillus is, in the majority of cases, an incident of early life, and that, regardless of the time of development of clinical symptoms, tuberculosis is, in its origin at least, essentially a disease of childhood. Francine³says: This infection during childhood does not, as a rule, develop into pulmonary tuberculosis at that time, but lies dormant in the lymphatic system, or is latent until adult life, when it breaks forth or manifests itself in pulmonary localization. It is

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