A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White.

  • White, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    curing difeafes by charms and noftrums, let us not fall into nearly as great an error, by fuppofing that any one application, whether internal or external, unaided by Other means, can poffibly be a remedy for a generally difeafed habit. Mercury, and Peruvian Bark, are the only two medicines that have yet acquired the name of fpecificks; but every one knows how often the aid of other medicines, as well as the ftri&eft attention to the non¬ naturals are neceffary, to render even thefe efficacious, in the very difeafes for which they have acquired this diftinguifhing title. Struma, by all who have wrote upon it hitherto, has been confidered as an heredi¬ tary f difeafe, but I fhall endeavour to aflign other. f What I conceive to be the general idea of hereditary difeafe, is a certain morbid quality in fome part of the human body, faid to be in the blood, derived from one or both parents, and tranfmitted to their pofterity, that is not to be extirpated by art, but exifls during life ; and, in moft inftances,