On the pathology and treatment of scrofula : being the Fothergillian prize essay, for 1846 / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

  • Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859.
Date:
1846
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of scrofula : being the Fothergillian prize essay, for 1846 / by Robert Mortimer Glover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nearly the present day. But Hufeland did not content himself with speculating on the state of the humours ; we find him attributing the disease to a profound atony of the lymphatic system, accompanied with a specific irritation of the same system, and a particular alteration of the lymph.# Of more eccentric notions regarding the pa- thological cause of struma,—we have the disease ascribed to the vitiation of the nervous fluid, to the consequences of syphilis ; and more especi- ally the theory of De Haen, who conceived scro- fula to be dependent on an alteration of the fluids consequent on the small-pox:—a notion strange- ly opposed to the recent researches of M M. Barthez and Rilliet, who, as shall afterwards be shown at greater length, endeavour to prove small-pox to be in some degree a preservative against tubercular aflections, while vaccination tends to increase the prevalence of these diseases. Nevertheless, the views of De Haen were enter- tained very generally during the last century; and we are informed by our venerable friend Dr. Clanny, that after the promulgation of the dis- covery of Jenner, the late well-known Dr. Fea- ron, of Sunderland, remarked to him how much * Hufeland, par Bousquet, p. 47,