Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman.

  • Balman, Thomas.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Researches and observations on scrofulous disease of the external lymphatic glands : With cases, showing its connection with pulmonary consumption and other diseases / By Thomas Balman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowed equally to apply to every description of case, whether such predisposition, either here- ditary or acquired, be present or not. It is extremely difficult, as Mr. Phillips justly remarks (p. 100), to estimate the unmixed in- fluence of any single cause when it is made pro- bable that many causes are in action ; we can scarcely comprehend how it happens that able in- quirers should mention with so much pertinacity, not alone the efficiency, but also the universality of one. Nevertheless, it does appear to me to be essential, if we are desirous of having a complete knowledge of the combined operation of the seve- ral so-called causes of scrofula, that we should first proceed step by step, examine each seriatim, and isolated, as it were, from the others. In this way we may eventually be enabled to estimate the true value of each, point to this or that as being feeble or energetic, occasional or frequent. Thus, by a careful analysis of this kind, we shall not only possess a more comprehensive knowledge of the whole, but likewise be better prepared to guard against some of the more prominent and efficient