A treatise on the nature of scrofula : in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease on new principles; illustrated by various facts and observations explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases. / By William Farr.

  • Farr, William, active 1820.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on the nature of scrofula : in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease on new principles; illustrated by various facts and observations explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases. / By William Farr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gnostic marks of diseased mesentery. The health of the t hird was much impaired at the time I saw them, from caries of the lower jaw, with enlargement and ulceration of the submaxillary gland of the left side. These well-defined characteristics of Scrofula, as I learned from the mother, had been ushered in, as in the cases of the former children, with similar derangement of the chylopoietic viscera. The remaining three children had been casually removed to more salubrious situations, and hitherto they have escaped the malady. It may not, perhaps, be deemed irrelevant to state their ages; that of the eldest is now 23, the second 19, and the youngest 13 years; as from this circumstance, some conclusive facts may be deduced, the disease having terminated in the three chil- dren first spoken of, before any of them had attained the thirteenth year. The case of the third child is detailed in the Appendix, in which it will be found, that even under circumstances so unfavorable, in many ma- terial points, the plan of treatment I am about to recommend, does not fail to be attended with success.