mustard-seed-like

Updated: June 24, 2025

It kills every year, in the United States, over a hundred and fifty thousand men, women, and children more lives than were lost in battle in the four years of our Civil War. It is caused by a tiny germ the tubercle bacillus so called because it forms little mustard-seed-like lumps, or masses, in the lungs, called tubercles, or "little tubers."

Woods Hutchinson - A Handbook of Health