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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    [ *7 ] men of abilities, not having been placed in a fituation where this difeafe claimed their particular attention, have admitted the general aflertion to be a fa6f, without entering into its merits, and in confequence of this perfuafion, they have been content with recommending fuch methods as they have thought were mod likely to palliate the fymptoms, or to check the progrefs of the difeafe. But what reafon have we to look upon the ftudy of phyfick in its dif- ferent branches as at its ne plus ultra ? Many difcoveries prove the contrary. The very important one of the circulation of the blood, is at no very diflant period, confidering how long the ftudy of anatomy has been in pra&ice; and though Bartholin, Nuck, and others, have written upon the Lymphatics, yet are we chiefly indebted to the profeflors of anatomy, of the prefent age, for a more general information re- fpefting that important fyftem ; nor do I think there is the fmalleft doubt, if we may judge from the advantages attending paft difcoveries, but that our fucceftors will be D fortunate