A treatise on pulmonary consumption : comprehending an inquiry into the causes, nature, prevention, and treatment of tuberculosis and scrofulous diseases in general / by James Clark.

  • James Clark
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1835
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Credit: A treatise on pulmonary consumption : comprehending an inquiry into the causes, nature, prevention, and treatment of tuberculosis and scrofulous diseases in general / by James Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    we might perhaps leave them in the hope that their diminu- tion would keep pace^with the improvement of society. But if, on the contrary, we arrive at the conclusion that scrofulous diseases are on the increase, and that the health of the middle and upper ranks of society is progressively declining, we shall have the strongest reasons for inquiring into the causes which lead to such deterioration of health. That a general delicacy of constitution and a proneness to scrofulous diseases are on the increase, is a conclusion the accuracy of which I leave to be decided by the experience of the profession.* We have all an opportunity of observing and comparing the state of health of the rising generation with that of their fathers and grandfathers. On taking a sur- vey of the constitution of these three generations, I think it will be found, in a large proportion of instances, that the de- terioration of health is progressive from father to son. I am far from believing that this observation always holds good ; hut I do believe that it generally does : at least, such is the conclusion to which I have been led from personal observation. * The terms Scrofulous and Strumous, when strictly applied, have the same import as Tuberculous, and are used in this sense in the following pages.
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