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].

  • William Farr
Date:
1829
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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    me with a re-appearance of the disease, and many of my old patients have large families of children who have no taint or disposition to Scrofula. During last summer I visited the Scrofula Hospital near Margate, and found it a well-conducted and well-regulated Institution; but there was no fixed or deter- mined plan of treatment for the patients, no one medicine given which is known to have a decided influence over the disease. It is my opinion that the advantages of this Institu- tion would be greatly increased, if it had a sister one in the metropolis, to which all patients requiring change, might be occa- sionally removed. Scrofulous patients derive benefit from the sea-side for a given time; after that, they remain stationary, and often retrograde in health. The worst months in London are July, August, and September, and these, fortunately, are the best at the sea-side, at least for Scrofulous patients. Such an ex- change of situation would, 1 am satisfied, be found extremely beneficial to the Scrofulous poor. From these remarks, it may be said that I wish such an Institution in London b from interested motives,—I wish it, certainly, I because I know it would prove my assertion; I B 2
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