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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    this, however, yielded to copious bleedings from the inflamed part, often repeated, with the assistance of a caustic issue behind the trochanter. The unfortunate young woman, however, had scarcely recovered from her lameness, in consequence of the affection in her hip, when she became the subject of pneumonic inflammation, which, in spite of all measures employed to counteract it, soon erm mated' in confirmed phthisis, which eventually destroyed her. I have no hesi- tation in pronouncing this disease, in these two cases, not to have been scrofulous, no less from the circumstance of its being exempt from the suppurative inflammation, than from the peculiar mode of its affecting continuous glandular surfaces. It has been for ages, and is, I believe, now the prevailing opinion in the extra-profes- sional world, that this disease can never be effectually eradicated from the system; and that, though persons have been cured, to all outward appearance, and continue free from it for the remainder of their lives, yet, that they possess a latent power of propagating it to their next succeeding offspring, or chil-