• King’s evil-Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands

• Lupus Vulgaris-Tuberculosis of the skin

• Mesenteric disease-Tuberculosis of lymph glands the abdomen. An illness of children caused by drinking un-pasteurized milk from tuberculosis-infected cows.

• Phthisis-Chronic wasting away, the original Greek name for tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is often caused from overworking or emotional stress. “Other patients present with acute febrile illness, chills, and generalized influenza like illness, and medical attention is not sought until symptoms fail to resolve. Acute symptoms may be superimposed on a more chronic pattern. Erytema nodosum can come about with severe signs of tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei, which is contracted when a person coughs, sneezes, speaks, or sings. The droplet nuclei can remain suspended in the air for long periods of time because they are so small. The disease is transmitted through out the room, once the host releases it. Some patients can produce larger particles of bacilli, but the transmission is not very effective because they do not remain airborne, if inhaled they cannot reach alveoli. “Organisms deposited on intact mucosa or skin do not invade tissue. When large particles are inhaled, they impact on the wall of the upper airway or trachea, where they are trapped in the mucous blanket, carried to the oropharynx, and swallowed or expectorated” (aepo.cdc.gov ).

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