An essay on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, vulgarly called the King's evil. Deduced from observation and practice / Published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people, by John Morley.

  • Morley, John, -1776.
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, vulgarly called the King's evil. Deduced from observation and practice / Published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people, by John Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    snd to wafh them every Morning with the coldeft Spring Water. This Method, ia a few Months, reftored her Sight, fo that fhe can now fee to fpin, and do any corn-- mon Work. Three Years after this* (he ihewed me her right Bread; very hard and full of Pain, fome Remainder of the old Complaint, for Want of proper Care, having fallen into it: I ordered her to pultice it with half white Nettle Leaves, and half Elder Leaves, warm, Morning and Night* and this has reftored it as well as the other; this i two Years fince, and as I have heard nothing from her, no Doubt but fhe conti¬ nues well,. - — ***/ * *•. CASE XII. Lienor Bulhner, kept the Golden Lyon in Newmarket, Suffolk, aged 55, about fe^en Years fince, had a violent Rath came out all over her, then fell into the left Leg, and produced a very large foul, deep, {linking Ulcer, almoft all round the fmal! of her Leg, five or fix Inches long; the Mufcle that bends the great Toe and Foot upwards, bare and dry as a Horn, an Inch or more in Length, and grown about with much proud Flefh. This Woman had not been able to fter off her Couch, fora Year and a half without great Difficulty, and two Stilts under her Arms; and a great Pbyftcian told her.