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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    rally known, he has not thought it necessary to demonstrate them at large. This has been done by others, and particularly by Mr. Abernethy ; they are, therefore, only discussed in the present instance, so far as is necessary to make them un- derstood by those out of the profession, who are not yet acquainted with them, or to point out their connection with the disease which is here considered. Of the general or constitutional treatment, less also has been said than the subject might have admitted, or than may appear necessary to some persons. But it was not the wish of the Author to interfere any farther than his subject obliged him with the more immediate province of medi- cine. On the local treatment, he trusts that suf- ficient information has been given: but it must be remembered, that the great object of the Work is to shew, that scrophulous diseases are, in ge- neral, to be removed by attention to the general health of the patient; and that the disease itself is to be considered the secondary, not the pri- mary object of attention. I hose who will still think that scrophula may