Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall.

Date:
1828
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Credit: Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These cases might easily be extended but it appears to me unnecessary. Where ) have endeavoured to attain this object, I have used the sulphate of zinc in solution, and I am so confident of its success, that I should consider a Surgeon unpardonable who had an exteiisivc scar from this species of scrofulous abscess. That I may not appear to over-rate this treatment, 1 shall beg leave to relate the cases in which it has failed. CASE. I was consulted by a Gentleman for an enlarged absorbent gland, situated under the sub-lingual gland. He had extensive scars below each ear, and had been occasion- ally afflicted with scrofulous complaints from a very early period in life. There was considerably more redness on the skin than is usual in these cases, but it was probably produced by a plaster he had been using. An abscess had formed, but the inte- guments were thick; there was also some puckering. The usual means of removing it were ineffectual, but it did not approach the