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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    man who, at the age of between forty and fifty, died of phthisis from tuberculated lungs, and who had at that time a scrophulous affection of the tarsal and meta-tarsal bones of his left foot, besides several abscesses about his hip and groin. I also attended a patient, upwards of forty years old, with the same disease in his foot. Two abscesses were opened in the instep, from which complete scrophulous matter was discharged. From the two preceding cases it appears, that the disease may exist at a very late period; and that it may exist at the earliest age, the two cases related at the beginning of the first part of this Essay fully prove. It is, however, certain, that this disease of the joints, like other scrophulous affections, is oftener found in children than in adults; but this is a circumstance that will assist us but little in our prognosis, as they are also subject to other diseases of the joints. It be- comes, therefore, necessary to have other diag- nostic signs, and I believe the following will be found generally to conduct us to an accurate conclusion:— At an early period of the first stage, or when there is simply absorption of the earth, and a morbid depositiqn in the cancelli of the bone, the change takes place so insidiously and impercep- tibly, that it is often impossible to detect it. If there be any symptom produced, it is merely a