A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, Eusebius Arthur.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will be found that the cheeks, though full and tumid, are softer and more flaccid than is natuial to health; and that, instead of being fixed and firm, they hang as it were loose on the face. There are, nevertheless, persons who have the greatest tendency to scrophula in whom none of these ap- parent signs of health exist, but whose com- plexions are peculiarly dull and pallid; in these the appearance of delicacy and langour is e\en greater than in the former. In the former state the lips generally partake of the fulness of the face, and are of a beautiful red, while in the latter they are pale. It often happens too, that the parts about the mouth are of a peculiar dull pallid hue. There is also a remarkable appearance about the eyes, which cannot be accurately desciibed; but the conjunctiva is particularly free from blood- vessels, the pupil is generally much dilated, and the upper eyelid drops more than natural,to which, perhaps, as well as to the delicate state of habit, the dilatation of the pupil may be in some mea- sure owing. Among the symptoms indicating a disposition to scrophula, it has been already observed, that a fair complexion, and light hair and eyes are gene- rally mentioned; but I believe there are no legi- timate grounds for such distinction. Indeed, I am fully convinced, from a very extensive investiga- tion of the subject, that persons of every variety