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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    hereditary, when we are informed there is no one fatisfa&ory argument in its fup- port.—Whence then originated the idea ? moft probably from the frequency of its appearance, its attacking children, and the great difficulty of curing thofe afflicted with it; but furely neither the frequency of a diforder, nor its being local, can be urged as valid reafons, otherwife all diforders ari- fing from fituation, may be conlidered as hereditary. The Broncocele is fo frequent in Derbylhire, as to have acquired the name of the Derbyffiire Neck, and Heifter fays, that it is related to be fo general among the inhabitants of Tyrole, that it was confidered as an ornament; but unlefs the children of the women of Tyrole, and thofe of Derby- ffiire, when removed to a fituation diftant from their refpedtive counties, ffiould have the Broncocele, it cannot be ftyled an here¬ ditary difeafe. Its principally attacking children, feems the npofl: plaufible reafon for confidering Struma as an hereditary difeafe; but to deem