A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White.

  • White, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [• * ] it is fomewhat furprifing that it has not more generally engaged the attention of the ableft men in the profeffion; whether we confider it as a difeafe that adds more to the bills of mortality than any other, or in its milder confequences, as rendering imperfeft and disfiguring fome of the moft beautiful of our fpecies ; it is furely of fufficient importance to deferve the moft ferious confideration; and an emu¬ lation ought to arife in the profeffion, to prevent, as much as poffible, the baneful confequences of fo dreadful a malady. Very happily for mankind, the diftreffing effefts of the Small-Pox are, in a great meafure, obliterated by inoculation, and I Ihould hope time and attention, will prove almoft equally advantageous, to the prevention, or cure, of Struma. Indeed, a great deal has been written upon this fubjeft, but it was at a time, when the treatment of difeafes in general, was go¬ verned more by paft obfervations, than a knowledge of the animal ceconomy, and x when
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