Abstract
Lesions of the thymus gland in young infants are among the less common conditions encountered, either clinically or at necropsy. Acute inflammatory lesions are rare. Hyperplasia accompanying status thymicolymphaticus is the thymic lesion seen most frequently. Other causes of enlargement are neoplasms, Hodgkin's disease and leukemia. The following case is reported in detail because some of its features differ from any hitherto recorded: <h3>REPORT OF CASE</h3> A white, female infant, aged 4½ months, born in this country, of Irish parents, was admitted to the Babies' Hospital, September 29, and died, Oct. 1, 1924. Her father and mother were alive and well. The patient was the seventh child. The other six were in good health. No miscarriages or stillbirths had occurred, nor was any history of familial disease elicited from the parents. The infant was born at term after a normal labor. The weight at birth had not been determined. She
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