TUBERCULOSIS OF THE CERVICAL LYMPHATICS: A STUDY OF SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CASES

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. Baldwin1 says:Childhood is the time of infection, youth the time of superinfection, and that from extension of the primary disease.McCleave2 says: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.Francine3 says: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