On the pathology and treatment of scrofula : being the Fothergillian prize essay, for 1846 / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

  • Robert Mortimer Glover
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1846
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    in such patients, we shall readily assent to this doctrine.# A few writers may be found in the last cen- tury who contented themselves with simply re- peating the opinion of the Hippocratic school with regard to the general pathology of struma. Thus Russel— Morbos igitur glandularum morbidarum censeo fere oriri a quibusdam ob- structionibas, quae proveniunt a fluxione aliqua copiosius in glandulas influente, quam ut per earum tubulos transmitti possit. Proinde intu- mescunt glandulae, earurn capsulae distenduntur, atque mcrescenti tumori paulatim cedunt, donee rumpuntur vascula, movetur pus ; aut e tunica- tis tumoribus vel steatoma, vel atheroma, vel meliceris, vel aliquid ejusmodi oritur.! White, in 1794, says— My opinion, there- fore, is, that the struma, or King's evil, arises immediately from obstructions in the lymphatic system, most frequently occasioned by a visci- dity of lymph.! Cullen, on the other hand, supposes an acrimony of the fluids in scrofula, a doctrine which is partly that of Hufeland, and has continued to be held in Germany until * A treatise on scrophulous diseases shewing the good effects of factitious airs. By Charles Brown. 1798. p. 19. t De Tabe Glandulari. 1750. p. 22. X A Treatise on the Struma, p. 61.