Researches and observations on the causes of scrofulous diseases / by J.G. Lugol ; tr. from the French, with an introduction, and essay on the treatment of the principal varieties of scrofula, by W. Harcourt Ranking.

  • Lugol, J. G. A. (Jean Guillaume Auguste), 1786-1851.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Researches and observations on the causes of scrofulous diseases / by J.G. Lugol ; tr. from the French, with an introduction, and essay on the treatment of the principal varieties of scrofula, by W. Harcourt Ranking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be productive of serious inconveniences in after-life by offering an obstacle to parturition. The body of the long bones is ordinarily of small caliber and slight. The growth of scrofulous subjects presents in different instances the very opposite extremes. We have frequently in the wards of the Hospital of St. Louis young persons, of twenty years of age, who have scarcely been more than one metre thirty centimetres in height * [4 feet 7 inches nearly] ; one in particular was not, at twenty years of age, more than one metre twenty centimetres [under 4 feet] high, and did not grow at all during the four years which he passed in the hospital. We have not unfrequently, for the instruction of the pupils, placed side by side with this patient other scro- fulous individuals of the same age who were one metre sixty and even seventy centimetres in height [5 ft. 6 in.] Some were even taller than this, one of them named Collot was of the unusual height of one metre ninety-five cen- timetres [6 ft. 4 in. nearly.] In these tall persons, how- ever, there is no more symmetry or proportion than in those whose growth has been arrested ; they have gene- rally a head too small for the trunk; they carry them- selves badly, and are utterly without energy. The digestive organs of scrofulous patients are gene- rally in a state of atony, in consequence of which the assimilative functions are continually disturbed. Many scrofulous children are never hungry; they do not eat a sixth part of the food which a healthy child of their age would consume. This loss of appetite is probably caused by a catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane of the primae vise, analogous to that which affects the lining membranes of the eyelids, nasal passages, or vagina. * The French metre is 39*370 inches, the centimetre 0-393 inch.—Transl.