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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    tutional rather than local diseases, and can be radically cured only by constitutional treatment. In any other point of view, I con- ceive .that the similarity must be lost; for, ; how can we associate a disease, to the action ! ’ of which all persons are alike subject, with a 1:^1 disease originating in peculiarity of constitu- 1 tional susceptibility, to be acted upon by cer- Itain causes known to produce it, and inca- pable of being propagated by inoculation, which is the only means through which Lues Venerea is generated ? But Scrofula was never known to be produced by the insertion or absorption of any poison or virus into the ? system. The glands, it is true, are affected II in both diseases; and in Lues this affection I arises from the irritation of the venereal I virus transmitted by the lymphatics. The s same result will occur in the axillary glands, 1 from even pricking the finger with a brass I pin ; and in the inguinal glands, from a • thorn sticking in the foot. In both cases, the irritation is conveyed along the absorb- ent vessels to the glands: but neither of these causes will produce scrofulous glan- dular enlargement; nor is the same remedy, D 2 ! i r