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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    ':’V; [ 7 ] other, and I hope more rational caufes, and prove that opinion not to be juftly founded. That it is a difeafe more general in this country than many others, mult be readily admitted; and the opinion of an eminent Italian writer, Zaviani, corro¬ borates this idea; for he calls it the Englifh diftemper. This difeafe is alfo more prevalent in fome counties than others. The counties of Suffolk and Lan¬ cashire are remarkable for the numbers of people afflifted with this complaint; but this cannot be adduced as a proof of its being hereditary. That there is a pre-difpofingcaufe in differ¬ ent habits to different difeafes, is beyond a doubt, generally, according to the different formation of the body: this is fo common that it is univerfally admitted. As for example, people of long necks and narrow chefts are inftances, according to the occaflonal caufes, and other concurring circumftances, makes its appearance fooner or later, and becomes more or lefs definitive to its poffelTor. moft