A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the king's evil.
- White, Thomas
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 ] children, and when the child lofes its flefh by difeafe, the enlargement and the curva-* tures of the bones become more apparent; and it has been ufual to confider thefe deformities as a diftinft difeafe, by the name of Ricketts: but I believe it very rarely happens, that we have what is commonly underftood by Ricketts, a mollities of the bones of infants; and therefore, I con- lider this, as no more than a proportionable enlargement, from the improper means be- fore defcribed. This is mod evident, in the fofter and fpongy parts, which are the ends of the bones, and is particularly difcover- able in the ribs, at the wrift, knee, and ancle. Surgeons well know, that the bones have peculiarities about them, from the aflion of the different mufcles ; and alfo, that in fraflures without fuitable compreflion, the bones in the divided part wrould be con- fiderablv enlarged. But, without appeal- ing to profelhonal men, the prodigious increafe that often takes place in children, from their birth to the end of twelve or eighteen months (if not fooncr arrelled by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522753_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
