A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836.
Date:
1829
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    CHAPTER III. Of the nature or proximate cause of the scrofulous dis- ease, and its concern in the production of scrofula. 1. The scrofulous taint has its primitive seat in the solids, and not in the fluids . • 52 2. The scrofulous disease consists in a great degree of weakness and atony of the lymphatic system cSnnected with a specific irritation of the same system, and in a peculiar alteration of the lymph . • • . ib. 3. The proximate causes of the scrofulous disease exist in the fluids as well as in the solids 54 4. The affection of the lymphatic system which con- stitutes the scrofulous taint alters the quality of the lymph (this is what is called acrimony of the lymph, scrofulous virus) . 57 CHAPTER IV. Of the formation of the scrofulous acrimony. 1. Stagnation of the lymph . . .61 2. Vicious accumulations of lymph in a cavity 62 3. Irregularity in the course of the lymph . ib. 4. Alterations of the lymph (properly called scrofu- lous acrimony) . . . . ib. CHAPTER V. Of the nature of the scrofulous acrimony.