The power attached to them for this form of ailment was similar to that which the king's touch had for scrofula or the king's evil.
Under scrofulawere included most of the wasting diseases, and under epilepsy many neurotic conditions as well as many organic disturbances.
Scrofula is a disease which almost always shows itself during childhood, and rarely after maturity has been attained.
Iritis is frequently produced by rheumatism, as well as by scrofula and gout, and often places the sight in great peril.
By modern pathologists scrofula is regarded as a constitutional tendency to form and deposit in various tissues and organs of the body a substance called tubercle.
Under his dissolute son Charles II, after the great English revolution had passed, royal healings of scrofula attained their greatest vogue.
This king is said to have touched close to a hundred thousand victims of scrofulain the course of his reign.
Scrofula depresses the vital energies, and thus leaves its victims far more subject to disease and its fatal results than are healthy constitutions.
Daniel Turner, though, relates that several cases of scrofulawhich had been unsuccessfully treated by himself and Dr.
Jeremy Collier maintained that the scrofula miracle is hereditary upon all his successors, but we find that not blood but royal prestige was the secret.
In his case at least the touch was inefficacious, for he was subject to scrofula all his life.
It is instructive to note, however, that while in no other reign were so many people touched for scrofula and so many cures vouched for, in no other reign did so many people die of that disease.
Scrofula and various forms of lupus are common among the natives throughout the country and especially in the interior; elephantiasis is frequently met with on the coast.
The town has thermal springs known in Roman times, which are used in cases of scrofula and rheumatism.
Such statistics as have been furnished, however, upon this subject seem to show that there is no connection whatever between scrofula and complexion.
But as the study of scrofula progressed, and frequent observations were made of the occurrence of disease of the external lymphatics and of the mesenteric glands in the same subject, disputes arose as to the identity of the two affections.
Scrofula is essentially and purely a diathetic, not a cachectic, disease.
We believe, as already stated above, that the essential cause of scrofula is some peculiarity in the constitution of the tissues of the scrofulous subject; and we think it highly probable that H.
It is argued against the identity of scrofula and pulmonary consumption that the commoner manifestations of the former occur in childhood for the most part, while consumption is a disease of adult life.
The geographical distribution of tabes mesenterica is as universal as that of scrofula and pulmonary phthisis.
It has been stated by some observers that scrofula occurred principally in the fair-haired, and with equal positiveness by others that it was in the dark-haired that the disease found the most of its victims.
Livingstone has stated that scrofula is unknown in some regions in Central Africa, and other travellers have made similar statements in regard to some Indian tribes.
It is true that cases of scrofula are quite numerous in the country, and in a note to Sir Thomas Watson's Practice of Physic (1851) D.
It was doubtless due in part to this practice that there was so little scrofula among them.
As a result of scrofulanutrition and assimilation become impaired, mostly in the cases of extreme suppuration.
If this defective nourishment is continued, scrofula will surely follow and this is a stage antecedent to consumption.
Nevertheless it will be possible to prevent the dangerous transition of scrofula into tuberculosis and thus save the lives of a great many persons.
No one will probably maintain that in those cases in which the development of scrofula had been succeeding those diseases, that this has resulted from a poison generated by the preceding disease.
Just how far Koch's new method will take the place of former remedies used forscrofula can not be told at present as experiments in this direction are wanting.
Of course the fact cannot be denied, that cases of developing scrofula have been at times observed as succeeding vaccination.
As a precautionary measure against scrofula a careful regulation of the diet is recommended.
In the case of erethistic scrofula the children are found to be of slight and lean structure, with fine hair and long eyelashes; they are active, easily excited, gifted and extremely sensitive to physical pain.
Scrofula is one of the most frequent diseases, it is spread over the whole world.
Some scientists claim to have observed the inheritance of scrofula by children, whose parents at the time of generation were afflicted with tuberculosis or were suffering from general debility resulting from hunger and want.
Generally wet-nurses are only tested for syphilis; scrofula and tuberculosis receive altogether too little attention.
Furthermore the development of scrofula is favored by the breathing of foul damp air such as is frequently found in newly built or damp houses and also by deficient care of the skin.
If scrofula is hereditary in a family, or if the mother exhibits symptoms of the disease, she should not be allowed to nurse the child but a strong and healthy nurse should be engaged.
It is of no less importance for a successful treatment of scrofula to provide surroundings of as favorable conditions as possible.
It is a well-known fact that scrofula furnishes the largest contingent for tuberculosis.
Brook Street, Ipswich, now about 70 years of age, had a severe attack of scrofula on the right thigh; he was brought over from Ipswich to Stanton, when J.
Scrofula is not a local disease which may be remedied by the knife or any other local remedy; but it is a constitutional disease, which must be treated by constitutional means.
They still maintain their unrivalled efficacy; scrofula has yielded its stubbornness and its malignity to their powers in a vast variety of instances, and they may be fairly considered as established in the opinion of the public.
The cure of scrofula is generally so difficult that it has become an opprobrium of surgery.
Kent, afflicted with scrofulain the right side of the face, attended with great swelling, and the jaw-bone was entirely set fast.
Too low a diet would stint the growth of such a child, and induce a state of body deficient in vigour, and unfit for maintaining full health: scrofula and other diseases would be induced.
Hereditary transmission of scrofula and consumption; the best antidote to, 20.
In scrofula he had to assume, in contradiction to his nervous pathology, a peculiar acridity, and in putrid fever a putridity of the humors of the body.
This opinion is borne out by the facts, that cod-liver oil cures those forms of scrofula and other diseases which do not yield to iodine, and that those varieties of the oil are the most active which contain the most free phosphorus.
They were too far gone with scrofula and venereal.
It is no doubt true that the occasion of the prevalence of scrofula among the lower classes may be ascribed to frequent and severe climatic exposures, irregular and poor diet, or want of due cleanliness.
Under any plan of treatment the general directions given for the hygienic management of scrofula should be followed.
Scrofula shows a strong disposition to manifest itself in the lymphatic glands, particularly in the superficial ones of the neck.
A Scrofulous Tumor] Scrofula may be the consequence of insufficient nourishment, resulting from subsisting upon poor food, or a too exclusively vegetable diet, with little or no animal food.
We shall merely say, for the encouragement of the afflicted, that this form of scrofula yields readily to this medicine.
The proper treatment of scrofula is important, because we meet with its symptoms on every side, showing its slow actions upon different parts of the body and its influence upon all the organs.
Scrofula and syphilis favor its development, while abuse of the nervous system, such as results from over-indulgence of the animal and reproductive instincts, are frequent sources of the nervous changes that lead to ataxia.
A disease in children characterized by crookedness of the spine and long bones resulting fromscrofula or poor and insufficient food.
Consanguinity, then, seems appreciably to intensify scrofula, but there is no indication thatscrofula is ever caused by parental consanguinity.
The blind from scrofula of consanguineous parentage were 2.
Not only were the resemblances between glanders and syphilis recognized, but lupus, leprosy, tubercle, and scrofula were also admitted as presenting a similar relation.
A distinction was thus drawn between scrofula and tuberculosis.
The frequent association of well-defined tubercles with what were regarded as antecedent scrofulous disturbances also suggested an intimacy of relation between scrofula and tuberculosis.
The occurrence of cases of tuberculosis without evidence of an antecedent scrofula prevented him from making a more absolute statement of the above relation.
The intimate relation of scrofula to tuberculosis has been variously expressed from time to time in accordance with the amount and accuracy of the existing knowledge.
The experiments of Villemin have not only demonstrated the infectious nature of tuberculosis, but have also led to a more accurate knowledge of the relation between tuberculosis and its allied affections, scrofula and pearly distemper.
These anatomical discoveries resulted in uniting more closely the affections scrofula and tuberculosis from the histological standpoint, and the union has become more firmly cemented from the etiological investigations.
It may well be that scrofula is still to be regarded as that condition of the solids and liquids of the body which offers favorable opportunities for the retention and growth of the bacilli, and thus for the production of tuberculosis.
It may be that such evidence will be presented; until it is collected scrofula and tuberculosis are to be regarded as distinct though often coexistent.
The views with regard to the connection between scrofula and tuberculosis have become essentially modified of late years as a result of the investigations concerning the etiology of tuberculosis.
Scrofula is almost universal among the working-class, and scrofulous parents have scrofulous children, especially when the original influences continue in full force to operate upon the inherited tendency of the children.
But the most important and direct remedies for Scrofula are to be found in Iodine and its compounds.
These are medicines which have the power of counteracting the poison of Scrofula in the blood.
Mead, in 1751, recommended the employment in Scrofula of burnt sponge, and a pill containing "sublimed Mercury" and precipitated Sulphuret of Antimony.
In Scrofulathe Iodide of Iron affords us a valuable double remedy.
Burnt sponge, and the ashes of a seaweed, the Fucus vesiculosus, both of which contain Iodine, have been used in Scrofula from very early times.
It is said thatScrofula and Consumption are unknown among the workmen in bleaching factories, where Chlorine is being constantly inhaled.
The case is the same with Scrofula and Iodine; with Lepra and Arsenic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrofula" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
