Abstract
HYPERPLASIA of the thymus gland has been a subject that has caused a great deal of discussion among members of the medical profession during the past decade. Internists, pathologists, physiologists, and radiologists have attributed the many complex symptoms occurring in infants and young children to an enlarged thymus, but whether their claims are entirely justified still remains in doubt. It is known that the thymus gland can be large without causing symptoms and, also, that we can have the symptom complex of status lymphaticus in infants and young children without any enlargement of the thymus gland. It is known that the thymus gland is subject to constant variations in size during the normal development of the child up to the age of adolescence, and that these variations may take place as a result of some mental or physical injury or excitement, even though trivial. In other words, the thymus observed at postmortem is not the thymus observed during life, nor is the thymus that is studied at one period ...
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