What is the cause of enlarged lymph glands?

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Enlarged Lymph Glands

Q. What is the cause of enlarged lymph glands?

A. The cause of enlarged lymphatic glands is usually tuberculosis. In the majority of cases recovery takes place spontaneously. This is be­cause the glands are good fighters in the first place. It is their business to resist germs. They are policemen placed about the citadel of life for the purpose of protecting it. Suppose there were a row of police-a hundred in line- standing in front of a house, and that burglars were com­pelled to fight every one of those policemen before they could get into the house; it would stand a very good chance of remaining unmolested. In just this way, the lymphatic glands are policemen. If a sliver lodges in the finger, and a nest of germs attacks the body, then the lymphatic glands in the neighborhood come to the rescue and be­come enlarged. The nearer we approach the center of the body, the greater number of glands we find to oppose the germs. Germs must fight their way through long procession of glands before they can obtain a foothold in the interior of the body.

But when germs get into the glands themselves, the power of the latter is vastly crippled. If they become seriously affected, they should be removed; yet people are often in too great a hurry to have the glands removed. They are the nat­ural barriers of the body and when they are broken down there is nothing to prevent the germs from establishing themselves in the body.

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