Abstract

This article reviews the tendency in 1918 to associate pulmonary tuberculosis as a sequel to the influenza epidemic. The author finds that patients are frequently misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and are actually only suffering from the after-effects of influenza: "patient after patient has come to me... who has been told that he has tuberculosis. Upon investigation, I have found many of these patients were merely suffering from the after-effects of influenza, and that there was not sufficient evidence upon which to base a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis."