A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].

  • Farr, William, 1807-1883.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give support to the back; in this the patient may sit some hours every day ; and when the patient be allowed to take exercise, the ap- paratus made by Mr. Lawrie is the best; issues and setons are sometimes advisable, but in five cases out of six that are brought to you, friction and the tartarized ointment are all you need apply locally. If this plan be followed and you remove the Scrofulous diathesis by the alkali, your patients will always do you credit. In cases of angular curvature Mr. Lloyd asserts that the bodies of the vertebrae are invariably destroyed, and he repeats this assertion in three or four different places; if this Avere correct Ave should never succeed in the perfect restoration of the spinal column in angular curvature. In one place he says, “ It can hardly be necessary for me to state that the common species of angular curvature is occasioned by the spin- ous processes of such of the vertebras, the bodies of which have been destroyed by caries, or absorbed, being thrust outAvards by the approximation of the sound vertebrae.” I would rather ascribe this thrusting out- wards of the spinous processes to a morbid alteration in the condition of the ligaments.