Next day an autopsy was conducted by Pelletan, at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, " which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son ", had died of a scrofulous infection of long standing . " Scrofula " as it was previously known, is nowadays called " Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis " referring to a lymphadenitis ( chronic lymph node swelling or infection ) of the neck ( cervical lymph nodes ) lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis.
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Next day an autopsy was conducted by Pelletan, at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, " which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son ", had died of a scrofulous infection of long standing . " Scrofula " as it was previously known, is nowadays called " Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis " referring to a lymphadenitis ( chronic lymph node swelling or infection ) of the neck ( cervical lymph nodes ) lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis.
