Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton.

Date:
1791
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Credit: Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of no confequence were upon the tunic® conjundtiv®. His fight was fo indiftindt, that he could not difcern fmall objedts and hence it appeared that the optic nerves and retin® had been greatly injur- ed by the inflammation. The tubercles were ftill fcattered every where upon his body, of various fizes; fome were hard and painful, others indolent, and many were in different dates of languid fuppu- ration, and were clearly featcd in the lymphatic fyftem immediately under the fkin. The ulcers had the fame com- plexion they had had, he faid, for many months, were of different depths and ex- tent, hard and livid, very foul, and dif- charged a fharp fetid ichor. It appeared pretty evident that there was a deep fcro- phulous habit: he was therefore put un- der the following courfe—One grain of ca- s lomel, one grain of opium, and five grains of extradl. cicut®, were diredted to be taken every night, and a folution of one drachm of the bitter cathartic fait every mo mm <?.