A treatise on the King's Evil, setting forth a new theory on that disease, and a new method of curing indurated and ulcerated glands of the neck / [T. Durant].

  • Durant, T. (Thomas)
Date:
1762
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Credit: A treatise on the King's Evil, setting forth a new theory on that disease, and a new method of curing indurated and ulcerated glands of the neck / [T. Durant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 2? ] ' For the Manner of extirpating thefe Tu¬ mors with the Knife, the Reader may con- fult Heift er s Surgery, where he will find a fuccindt Account of the Manner of perform¬ ing this Operation. In general, the Prognoftic of this Dif- eafe is, that when it is hereditary, or got from the Nurfe, and both internal and ex¬ ternal Parts are affedted, it is difficult to cure, and fometimes incurable. When a venereal or fcorbutic Taint is mixt with it, the Difeafe is greatly aggravated; and when it is of long ftaqding, when the Strength is already much broke, and colliquative Dif- charges come on, accompanied with a dry Cough and hedtic Fever, little or no Hope remains. \ To cure this Herculean Difeafe, we fhould diredt our Intentions to the removing; the Ob- flrudlion of the Glands, by inciding the Vilcidity of the Humors, and corredting their Acrimony, and then to deftroy the Tu¬ mor, by internal or external Application. But when the Fuilds are in fo acrimonious a E 2 State