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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    after the difeafe is thoroughly cured, of its making a fecond appearance, at any period, without a frefh infe&ion; and it may be proper to obferve, that this difeafe is com¬ municable in a manner very different from Struma. There are many who fuppofe this difeafe to be communicated by nurfes; but this I cannot admit: the inftances are fufficiently common, where children thrive very well while the mother or nurfe may labour under a variety of complaints ; but, on the other hand, where nurfes have acute difeafes, in mod cafes the children fufFer very ma¬ terially, and in fituations of this kind, no one will hefitate to fay, their milk mud be improper for the nutrjment of a child; but we are fuppofed to be fpeaking of nurfes to all appearance in perfeft health, and I confider it as of little confequence to the infant, whatever may be the probable difeafe or difeafes of her habit of body. Every one will naturally make choice of thofe women who come the neared to the dandard \