Remarks on the king's evil, or scrophula; with an account of a specific medicine for the cure of it / [Daniel Roberts].

  • Roberts, Daniel
Date:
1791
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Credit: Remarks on the king's evil, or scrophula; with an account of a specific medicine for the cure of it / [Daniel Roberts]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than another, or that any inherit ie \ r particularly, but as local circumftances, and probably their mode of living, ren¬ der them more liable to it. For the preceding powerful reafon, if no other could be advanced, it is very reasonable to conclude, that the Evil is by no means hereditary, and I could hope, that the contrary opinion hav¬ ing no argument to ftipport it, will in time become obfolete and totally worn cut of ufe» But as it afTefts the minds of ’ , » 'j fome, it renders medicine of little avail to them, becaufe they are induced to be¬ lieve that it is incurable: others again are. Sometimes for particular reafons under the necexhtv of concealing it, and often feek relief by adopting every recipe * which is recommended, without patient¬ ly v> ailing the exiedl of any.