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.

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    f [ 6: ] the lazieftof them. Too much deep, will be as conducive to that fat, foft, flabby feel, which children often have, as the quantity of their food : and I am very much inclined to think, that, in many inflances, the chro- nic difeafes of adults, fo juftly fuppofed to originate in luxuries, are brought on. by too much fleep. People, who are rather difpofed to be temperate, often fay, that temperance is not a preventative of difeafe; but, upon inquiry, I have almoft always found them, either much addi&ed to their bed, or, that there was fome natural eva- cuation, totally, or in part obftrucled. Do we not always find a great degree of lan- guor, gaping, yawning, and numberlefs difagreable fymptoms, after lying too long in bed ? And there is no doubt, but it lavs the foundation of many difeafes ; whilft, on the contrary, the inflances are very few, of thofe people having chronic complaints, or, indeed, any other difeafe, whofe avoca- tions require early rifing, and flrong exer- cife, even if in other refpecls they indulge pretty freely. If