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

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1795
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    common caufe. This more readily takes place where Scrophula occurs, as it fometimes does in advanced life. We Ihtdl, therefore, endeavour here, to point out the mold material diftinCtions betwixt the two difeafes. 1. The fir ft diftinciion to be obferved, is in their feat. There are two fets of glands in the body, the one fecretory, the other lymphatic. The former, we find, always the feat offchirr usand any gland of this defcription, may become affeCted with a Cancerous difpojition; but the lymphatic, or abfor- hcnt glands, are never the primary feat of this af- fection, though they become tainted by abforption from a neighbouring part, in the fame way, only, as every part is liable, from its connection with ano- ther, to the attack of the fame difeafe in its progrefs. Hence, practitioners of the greatelt experience declare, that they have never met with one unequivocal irfitance of a primary fchirrus of an abforbent gland. On the other hand, the lymphatic glands are the. peculiar feat of Scrophula; and it is on this account, that many authors have confidered Scrophula as entirely a difeafe of the lymphatic fyltem. Dr Cullen exprefsly views it, as owing to a peculiar conftitution of this fyltem, and wherever any part of this fyltem appears in- durated, at any period of life, we lliouid be a little doubtful of its nature. 2. The fecond dittinCtion to be remarked, is, in the ft ate of the folul, characlerifing the two difeafes. In