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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    a Tuinei, toi example, a medical writer of some celebrity early in the last century, explains the word scrofula in the following manner :—Scro- plnda, vel scrofula, Gr. yucxhc idem quod struma, according to Celsus a suibus sic diet, qui peculi- arity’ hoc morho infestantur; ut porcellus a por- cis, sic scrofula a scrofa.—V\ nether so or not, it is certain that the word scrofula stands in our common lexicon for a little pig, but with us is meant a disease of the glands going under the name of the King’s Evil.”4 Now in this explanation of these terms, this w riter goes on a very confident supposition, that the disease in question obtained the name of scro- fula, because pigs are infested with it in a pecu- liar manner, and that this interpretation is sanc- tioned by Celsus; a writer of such acknowledged eminence on every subject connected w ith medi- cine, that his authority enforces our attention, even when his doctrine is disputable, and fails to convince. Being desirous to see the original passage thus referred to, I was led to examine the w orks of Celsus with some care; but, to my great surprize, found not only no such explanation of the term as 4. See the Tabula iEtiologica subjoined to Turner’s art of Surgery.