Eaten constantly, as in pastry or the New-England doughnut, it is not only indigestible, but becomes the source of forms of scrofulous disease.
It is an unfavorable symptom, however, in scrofulous children and in girls affected with green-sickness, as in these instances it aggravates the existing disorders.
Scrofulous diseases are the heritage of those children who are deprived of a plentiful supply of pure air and light.
This is especially true of two of the most important classes of diseases, namely, scrofulous affections and low fever.
When the child shows signs of weakness or of a scrofulouscondition its nutrition will be improved by mingling with its food a small piece of butter or mutton suet.
The actual grooming of the human body is very useful to improve the health of scrofulous children.
The opinion that sexual relations practised during the time of the menses engender children liable to scrofulous disease, is a mere popular prejudice.
It stimulates the mucous membrane of the genito-urinary tract, and has been used in renal dropsy, scrofulous conditions, chronic ulcers and skin lesions.
It is usually used in a compound decoction with sarsaparilla for chronic skin diseases, and syphilitic, rheumatic and scrofulous conditions.
His wretched body, the body of a scrofulous child, appeared with its prominent ribs and projecting spine, its limbs so thin that they looked like mere walking-sticks.
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.
Many were found by the commissioners to exhibit all the symptoms of a scrofulous constitution, and the manufacturers usually refuse to employ girls who have worked in this way as being too weak.
Cod-Liver Oil: in scrofulous cases and in the hectic.
Sodium Gold and Chloride: in scrofulous abscesses as a tonic.
Gaduol: as tonic in scrofulousand weakly children.
They must be used in low doses, and are indicated in scrofulous abscess and in the chronic boils of children.
He ran to get orgeat for her, picked up her handkerchief, snatched a chair from the hands of a scrofulous young proprietor, who was also anxious to pay her attention, and who was not quick enough.
It has been remarked that all tea-drinking nations are essentially of a leucophlegmatic temperament, predisposed toscrofulous and nervous diseases.
Scrofulous and sickly children are in general remarkable for the quickness of their intellects; and Rousseau maintained that a man who could meditate was a depraved animal.
Laurent, to protect himself from the consequences of the substitution, replaced the wooden figure by a deaf mute, who was presently exchanged for the scrofulous child of the death certificate.
Next day an autopsy was held at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, "which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son," had died of a scrofulous affection of long standing.
It is probable that part of the efficacy of sea-side air and sea-voyages in scrofulous cases may be due to the free Chlorine which is given off in small quantities from the salt water of the ocean.
All scrofulous affections, whether of the glands, joints, liver, or other parts, are more or less benefited by the use of Iodine.
The most important of these are Alkalies, which are of use in general inflammation, and also in Scrofulous and Scorbutic diseases, acting in a way that is at present but obscurely explained.
Iodine and Potash are each peculiarly adapted to scrofulous cases?
Their efficacy in retarding the formation of crude deposits in scrofulous and tubercular diseases may possibly be assigned to the same operation.
In Syphilis, when occurring in scrofulous subjects, Potash has sometimes been used with greater advantage than Mercury.
Thus a cancerous or scrofulous condition may cause a deficiency in the red colouring matter of the blood, which may be supplied by Iron.
Cod-liver oil may be used with advantage as a vehicle for Iodide of Iron, in scrofulous cases.
Lugol, the most devoted and enthusiastic of all the advocates of Iodine, has observed that scrofulous patients frequently become fattened during its employment.
Small doses of Mercury, as an alterative, are often efficacious in scrofulous constitutions.
The Iodide of Iron is a most useful medicine for scrofulous children, who commonly suffer under Anaemia, as it combines a Chalybeate with an Antiscrofulic action.
In Anaemia produced by special causes, as by scrofulous or nervous disorder, we may often do most good by striking at the root of the evil,--employing a Catalytic medicine which shall be able to do this.
So that the experience of many practitioners, thus frequently disappointed in their hopes of a cure, has led them to question altogether the efficacy of Iodine in Scrofulous disorders.
Poultice for scrofuloustumors and ulcers, alone, or with elm.
This occurs usually in people with a feeble circulation or scrofulous constitution, usually seen in the young or very old.
In truth, a scrofulous constitution not only prepares us for many other diseases, but renders them, when they assail us, much more severe than they otherwise would have been.
It has been my lot to have a very great number ofscrofulous patients, daring the last twenty-five years, from almost every part of the United States.
Her scrofuloustemperament and tendencies rendered her liable to numerous diseases of greater or less severity and danger, to some of which she probably fell a victim.
I knew him to keep a very delicate female, who was scrofulous if not consumptive, for several weeks of the coldest part of the winter, in a room whose temperature seldom exceeded 30 deg.
Their children, though not strong, reap the full benefit of thorough parental reform; and their scrofulous tendencies seem every day more and more receding.
As it was a scrofulous tendency that lay at the bottom or basis of his complaints, I proceeded to treat him accordingly.
I do not know much of her early history, except that she was precocious in mind, and scrofulous and feeble in body.
His disease was scrofula; but, with his scrofulous tendencies were conjoined some other difficulties, more obscure and still more unmanageable.
And as usually happens, in the case of epileptic, and scrofulous people, he was quite too much inclined to works of imagination, with which the age and country abound.
However, certain circumstances produce a scrofulous habit of body in patients who previously appeared to be vigorous and healthy, and untainted with any peculiar disposition to disease.
To the continued irregular and imprudent exhibition of mercurial alteratives, as they are called, may be attributed the cachectic and scrofulous constitutions of many thousands of patients of all ages.
In cases of atrophy of bone, and where there is reason to suspect the scrofulousor tubercular deposit to be going on, the affected part should not be much used, and means taken to give tone to the system.
Female children are more apt to suffer from it than males, and it is also more common in such as are of a scrofulous habit than in such as are endowed with a good constitution.
In this disease there is nothing malignant; it occurs in people of impaired or originally weak constitution, and is generally known as the scrofulous testicle.
The skin, particularly that of the face, becomes, in very many cases, affected either primarily or secondarily with scrofulous ulceration, which commonly extends to the neighbouring textures.
It was said that Charles once handled a scrofulous Quaker with such vigor, that he made him a healthy man and a sound Churchman in a moment.
The treatment of scrofulous patients by the touch of a reigning sovereign's hand is believed to have originated in France.
A little girl of about eight years of age had from birth been troubled with scrofulous disease, and had been reared with great difficulty.
Thus, we are told of a woman who, afflicted with the small-pox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks; and of a poor lad who was rubbed with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.
He calls attention to the fact that the scrofulous and rachitic diatheses in childhood are sometimes accompanied by this disorder.
They are usually stupid, often to the verge of idiocy, and much subject to goiter and scrofulous affections.
He describes the disease as "essentially a scrofulous inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, .
Formad[70] claims that he has discovered structural peculiarities of tissue as a cause for the scrofulous habit, which he regards as synonymous with a predisposition to tuberculosis.
The frequency with which the inoculation of cheesy material, from what were regarded as scrofulous sources, was followed by tuberculosis, led to more exact studies concerning the anatomical peculiarities of scrofulous inflammation.
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 history of scrofulous glands, as well as that of circumscribed pulmonary inflammation in scrofulous persons, both presumably of a tuberculous nature, show that the effects of an invasion of the parasites may be overcome.
As the enlargements of the glands were found to present intrinsic differences connected with differing clinical histories, only those glands were regarded as scrofulous which presented the cheesy appearances.
Villemin showed that portions of a scrofulous (cheesy) gland when inoculated were followed by tuberculosis, and that the inoculation of cheesy material from non-tuberculous or non-scrofulous sources was not followed by this result.
In scrofulous children the course may be protracted for several weeks, and in them resolution is occasionally imperfect, a degree of enlargement and induration of one or both parotids remaining for some time.
The regularity of the presence of tubercles in scrofulousabscesses and ulcers of the skin and in scrofulous caries was shown by Friedländer.
In the treatment of scrofulous children, warm and tepid bathing is of great value.
Pelagio are the Berlin aquarium for the study of the marine fauna of the Adriatic, and a sanatorium for scrofulous children, opened in 1888.
It is a seaside resort, visited a good deal for bathing during the summer months, and there is also, as at Rovigno, an establishment for scrofulous children.
There can be, I think, no doubt that physical beauty is degenerating rapidly, and the frequency with which the scrofulous mouth is seen in children, even in children of the aristocracies, is alarming for the future of the race.
Ruel recommended cataplasms of daisies and cowslips for gout and scrofulous tumours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrofulous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
