A treatise on struma, or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil / [Thomas White].

  • White, Thomas (Surgeon)
Date:
1794
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Credit: A treatise on struma, or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil / [Thomas White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In theinftance of children or grown per- Ions predifpofed to Struma, it is of infi¬ nite confequence to them to be early at¬ tentive to the beft means of ftrengthenin^ their conftitution, but particularly wher any fymptoms of the complaint fhall ap¬ pear. The moft general indication of de¬ rangement in the fyftem is on the furfacc of the body; the fldn becomes dry and rough, the countenance is pale, the com¬ plexion fallow, the lips pale and dry, the Ikin of the neck of a darker colour than is « natural, and the arms rough, the palms of the hands dry and harfli; very little perfpiration, and that partially, fometimes accompanied with little eruptions about the body, often with children in the back of the head ; indurated lymphatic glands in the neck, breaft, arm-pits, and in the groins, a thicknefs of the upper lip, and eruptions about the mouth and nofe, inflamed eyes and eye-lids; moft of thefe fymptoms are accompanied with little or no pain, from the] infenfibilityj