A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. Remote causes of the scrofulous disease. I. PREDISPOSING, OR PRINCIPAL CAUSES. 1. Hereditary tendency . • .34 2. Sex and age .... 35 3. Weakness of parents . . .36 4. Syphilis of parents ... ib. 5. Influence of unwholesome aliment in the produc- tion of the scrofulous disease . . 37 6. Unwholesome air ... 41 7. Every thing that weakens the digestive powers 43 8. Acidities in the primae viae . . . ib. 9. Intestinal worms ... 44 10. The abuse of opium and other narcotics in child- hood—incomplete crises . . ib. 11. Want of exercise ... 46 12. Want of cleanliness . . . ib. 13. Abuse of heat ... ib. 14. Precocious studies . . .47 ] 5. Too early exercise of the sexual organs, onanism ib. 16. Mournful affections of the soul . . 48 17. The abuse of cold . . . ib. II. OCCASIONAL OR EXCITING CAUSES. 1. Development of the body, growth . ib. 2. The seasons . . . .49 3. Mechanical causes ... 50 4. Diseases of irritation . . ib.