A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr].

  • Farr, William, 1807-1883.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrofulous diseases : containing directions for combating every form of scrofula with success, illustrated by cases / [William Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Avell-clefined characteristics of Scrofula, as I learned from tlie mother, had been ushered in, as in the cases of the former children, with similar derangement of the chylopoietic viscera. The remaining three children had been casually removed to more salubrious situations, and hitherto they have escaped the malady. It may not, perhaps, be deemed irrelevant to state their ages. That of the eldest is now twenty-three, the second nine- teen, and the youngest thirteen years. From this circumstance some conclusive facts may be deduced, the disease having terminated in the three children first spoken of, before any of them had attained the thirteenth year. I have adduced this striking instance, founded on hereditary predisposition, in pre- ference to many others that I have witnessed, j as better calculated to evince the decided [ advantage resulting from a removal from the I immediate seat of the exciting cause; and under the impression that, as a precautionary measure of some moment, it may not be deemed frivolous by the profession, or dis- regarded by families in which hereditary susceptibility exists. i ■ ' I