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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    by difeafe) is fo difproportionate, that it mutt alone carry convi&ion to every indi¬ vidual. I cannot help comparing a child thus improperly nurfed, to a hot-houfe plant, brought forward by every poflible means. Like it, it grows luxuriant; but it is evidently fo contrary to nature’s prin¬ ciples ; that inftead of producing as may be expefted an Herculean race, it lays the foundation of innumerable difeafes ; fome are carried off fuddenly by Convulfions and Epileptic fits, while others have violent vomitings and purgings, high inflammatory Fevers, ulcerations behind the ears, erup¬ tions of the head, and different parts of the body, inflammations and fuppurations, and almoft always accompanied with ob- ftrufted Lymphatic glands externally, or internally, and moll frequently both toge¬ ther. Thus this improper treatment of young children, is a very general caufe of Struma. There are alfo many otI\er occafional caufes, fuch as external injuries, from 2 contufions