A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the king's evil.

  • White, Thomas
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the king's evil. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ * ] it is iomewhat furprifing that it has not more generally engaged the attention of the ableft men in the profeffion; whether we confider it as a difeafe that adds more to the bills of mortality than any other, or in its milder confequences, as rendering imperfeft and disfiguring fome of the moll; beautiful of our fpecies ; it is furely of fufficient importance to deferve the mod ferious confideration; and an emu- lation ought to arife in the profeffion, to prevent, as much as poffible, the baneful confequences of fo dreadful a malady. Very happily for mankind, the diftreffing effe6ts of the Small-Pox are, in a great meafure, obliterated by inoculation, and I fhould hope time and attention, will prove almoft equally advantageous, to the prevention, or cure, of Struma. Indeed, a great deal has been written upon this fubjeft, but it was at a time, when the treatment of difeafes in general, was go- verned more by pall obfervations, than a knowledge of the animal ceconomy, and i when