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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    A change to a milder climate, efpecially during the winter months, is the greateft aid medicine can have. But the moft general, and therefore, the moft important objeft of our attention, is to remove early obftruclions, of the Lym¬ phatic glands, in the mefentery. This feems to be the region in moft cafes of young fubjefts (I mean under the age of fix years) that is primarily affe&ed, and it often lays the foundation of difeafe for the reft of their lives. I have been parti¬ cular in defcribing the fymptoms ufually attendant upon early obftruclions of the Mefenteric glands, becaufe I am perfuaded it is the moft general complaint that children have in this country, and I fear the leaft known, or, what is ftill worfe, the leaft attended to. . : ? ] It evidently appears, that great numbers die of confumption ; yet I will venture tc fay, many more, in the fame fpace of time, die of difeafed Mefenteric glands, re- 2 giftered