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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    ( *8 ) &at if fhe went to an Hofpital, the Ulcer might be healed in two Months, but in all Probability it would kill her. Living at Newmarket, feveral Phyficians have feen her iince I took her in hand : The Mufcle of the Leg is rotted out, fo that (he cannot bend her Foot upwards, and mud always go limping; fhe goes about her Houfe with¬ out any Crutches, and now and then an un¬ derhand Staff, efpecially up Steps: the Ulcer is now very clean, and not above the Bignefs of a Half Crown, and the Woman in good Health and Spirits, and able to manage her Houfe herfelf, having, fince I fir ft faw her, loft her Hufband, who fetched me to fee her. I gave her a Root, judging the Cafe Scrophu- lous, and ordered the Ulcer to be cleanfed twice a Day from its Filth, with a Decoc¬ tion of Hemlock, and then apply the Herb bruifed, with Pork Lard and fine Oatmeal, warm, as a Pultice, frefh twice a Day as long as wanted, and at the fame Time to ufe the following Diet Drink: viz. Take Senna, four Ounces3 of fharp pointed Dock Root? Half a Pound ; the Great Water Dock Root, half a Pound3 Polypody Roots half a Pound3 all diced very thin 5 Crude Antimony grofly powdered, one Pound, and tied up in a Rag : Boil all in three Gallons of Sweet Wort, till one Gallon is wafted 3 ftrain it when cool enough ; work it with a Spoonful of Yeaft 3 add white Nettles, green Broom, i 1