An inquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / by William Nisbet.

Date:
1795
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    We fliall erdeavoui then to arrange the treat- ment of the cifeafe as it has been, either confli- tutional, local\ or combined; and, bj referring to thefe morlid circumftances fpecified, we fliall be able to judge how far each of them has been com- petent to effect its cure. Sect. i. Of the General Conjlitutbnal Treatment. r i '’HE general conflitutional treatment of this malady, feems, as far as we can judge, to have proceeded on the four following principles, viz. either, 1. To correct or diflodge the prevailing acrimony. 2. To excite peculiar atlion of veff'els, 3. To increafe the general torn of the fyflem, or 4. To remove irritation. Of the remedies employed on the firlt prin- ciple, to correct the prevailing acrimony, one of the molt celebrated has been the ufe of mineral waters : Different watering places have ai quired a reputation in the cure of this dileafe; and fome, fuch as JBriftol, for certain forms of it. On their general operation, it may be obferved, with Dr Cullen, that all kinds of them have been had recourfe to, and with equally good eifedts: Their fuccefs, therefore, he attributes to their Ample elementary part, as walhing out the lymphatic fyflem.