A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].

  • Farr, William, 1807-1883.
Date:
1829
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    of Scrofula: and although I may have little new matter to offer, in fact nothing that -has escaped the notice of other writers, with respect to remote causes, yet I cannot pass them over in silence; at the same time, I shall abstain from entering minutely into the consideration of them. I will, however, first briefly enumerate some of the notions and theories that have been entertained concern- ing Scrofula. Wiseman says, “ I shall endeavour to fix upon a peculiar acidity of the serum san- guinis for my specific difference; and shall describe the King’s Evil to be a tumor arising from a peculiar acidity of the blood, which, whensoever it lights upon glandule, mem- brane, or muscle, it coagulates and hardens; when it mixeth with marrow, always dissolves it, and rotteth the bones.”* Another theory runs thus; — ‘‘Lymph, which is deposited by the exhalants in the cavities of the body, occasionally becomes viscid; and, when taken up in this state * Vide Wiseman’s Surgery, p. 248.