A critical inquiry into the pathology of scrofula, in which the origin of that disease is accounted for on new principles; and a new and much improved method is recommended and explained for the treatment.

  • Henning, George.
Date:
1815
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    convenient, with sea water, and the mouth was frequently rinced with the same. 2$.—The swelling’s are less ; the ulcer is nearly healed; the patient’s general health is much im- proved; the dose of each of the medicines is to be increased. Dec. 10—The swellings are stationary; let him apply a plaster of soap and litharge, sprinkled with the muriate of ammonia. Jan. 2. 1799—The swellings are very much di- minished; asjie is weary of the sponge, he takes powdered sarsaparilla and mezereon, but con- tinues the iron and bark. Jan. 17—No vestige remains of the swellings; the mouth is well; the general health established; he is allowed to relinquish all medicines except the steel, and is to bathe in the sea. I had an opportunity of seeing this gentleman a year after this time. He was become fat and florid, and had suffered no relapse. CASE 15. See page 207. 1 A person, sixty-four years of age, had for many years a small and indolent tumor in her left breast; the effect, as was supposed, of an accident. At length it became uneasy, and she was directed to take a purgative composed of half a grain of the muriate of quicksilver with otic scruple of rhubarb. During the operation of this medicine, she was