A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, Eusebius Arthur.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    scrophula the softer and more spongy parts, as the heads of the cylindrical bones, the bones of the carpi, and tarsi, and the bodies of the ver- tebrae, are almost exclusively the seat. The can- cellous structure, however, of every part of a bone may be attacked by this disease. I have seen cases of this kind, and in Mr. Langstaff’s Museum there are preparations proving it; so that this is a fact that no longer can be doubted. As too, scrophula is so prevalent a disease, as the bones are very susceptible to it, and as the parts which have been described are the parts which are most obnoxious to it, we cannot be surprised that the diseases of the spine, and of the joints, should, in this country, so frequently par- take of a scrophulous nature. Wiseman states, that “ the bones are as often affected as any other parts of the body,” vide page 252. The true scrophulous disease of a bone, I be- lieve, always commences in its cellular, or cancel- lous structure. At first the vascularity of the bone appears to be simply increased ; gradually, however, the whole texture is altered ; the earthy matter is absorbed, and the bone becomes softer than in health. Subsequently the natural secre- tion of the cancellous structure also becomes ab- sorbed, and the cancelli are filled with a yellow caseous matter, or a transparent yellow fluid. Sometimes too, with this cheesy matter there is