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 [ 9 ] generally been fuppofed, and may thence in fome degree be remedied. Perfons of red or light-coloured hair, are faid to be peculiarly fubjeft to this difeafe; but that this complaint is not confined to the colour of the hair, or the complexion, is evident from the numbers of people that have dark hair and fimilar g complexions being very frequently Strumous. There are many inftances,, where both father and mother are disfigured by Struma, and their children have been perfeftly free from the leaf!: appearance of fuch a com¬ plaint. I know it will be here faid, that although the difeafe has not yet appeared, there is every reafon to fuppofe it will. If it was dependant upon any particular form or complexion, this might be reafonably expe6led; but the contrary is very well known, and therefore the conjefture is not s The children of the poorer Jews are almoft invari¬ ably Strumous; and I have had feveral black people under my care with the fame complaint, c well