scrofula

The boy had swelling in his neck, which at first glance indicated scrofula, or TB in his lymph nodes.

His smile is the origin of what is called sunshine, and he personally cured my scrofula.

In part because she described a long history of what sounded like tuberculosis, they initially suspected scrofula.

One form of TB, scrofula, shows up in the glands of the neck.

So prized were moles’ hands that farmers once kept them in silk bags as talismans for good luck and to ward off toothache, epilepsy and scrofula.