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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    same cause can exert an equal influence locally, or on a particular part, I shall state the following facts to prove it:— A poor man was brought into St. Bartholomew’s Hospital with a compound fracture ol his leg, pro- duced by the kick of a horse ; the tibia protruded, and the parts around were much bruised, and sloughed away to a considerable extent, but the chasm became filled up with healthy granulations, and at the end of a fortnight the man was in par- ticularly good health, free from all fevei, or any species of irritation. At this time, which w as on a Sunday, his friends, who lived in the country, came to see him, and brought him a large plum pud- ding, and other substantial provision, of which he ate most heartily, and in the evening was quite sick. During the night a high degree of fever came on, and towards morning he became delirious. Upon examining the wound to dress it, which w as befoie perfectly healthy, its edges were found in a state of mortification, the granulations were all absorbed, and the tibia was exposed; so remarkable was the change which had been produced in the state of the wound, by this accidental derangement of the digestive organs, in the short space of t welve hours. On the following evening the wound was surrounded with erysipelatous inflammation,which, on the next day, was spreading so rapidly that the limb was obliged to be amputated: this, however.