A man withscrophulous tumour of the right elbow, attended for three years with excruciating pains, was nearly cured by four doses of the juice taken once a month.
In the last stage of a pulmonary consumption of the scrophulous kind, took an Infusion of Digitalis, but without any advantage.
A man with scrophulous ulcers in various parts of the body, and which in the right leg were so virulent that its amputation was proposed, cured by succ.
They have been long used externally to sores and scrophulous tumours with considerable advantage.
With some they have been in great esteem in intermittent fevers; as also in scrophulous and other chronic disorders.
They were formerly accounted excellent vulneraries, and of great use for cleansing and healing old ulcers and cancerous sores: some have recommended them internally in leprous and scrophulous disorders; as also in hydropic cases.
Hence some have recommended it as an astringent in dysenteries, a diuretic, and others as an aperient and deobstruent in scrophulous habits.
Of this kind are the schirrous glands of the breasts, of the lungs, of the mesentery, and the scrophuloustumours about the neck and the bronchocele.
To these should be added electric sparks and shocks, which promote the absorption of the vessels in inflamed eyes of scrophulous children; and disperse, or bring to suppuration, scrophulous tumours about the neck.
These observations explain why epilepsy and insanity frequently succeed or reciprocate with each other, and why inirritable habits, as scrophulous ones, are liable to insanity, of which I have known some instances.
Another great use of the stimulus of heat is by applying it to torpid ulcers, which are generally termed scrophulous or scorbutic, and are much easier inclined to heal, when covered with several folds of flannel.
Scrophulous tumours are sometimes absorbed, and sometimes brought to suppurate by passing electric shocks through them daily for two or three weeks.
And I have seen seven parts of bark in fine powder mixed with one part of ceruss, or white lead, in fine powder, applied dry to scrophulous ulcers, and renewed daily, with great advantage.
Where scrophulous ulcers about the neck are difficult to heal, Dr.
Hence heat, where it can be confined on a torpid part along with moisture, as on a scrophulous tumour, will contribute to produce suppuration or resolution.
The consequence of which, after a hard labour, is probably the puerperal fever, and in scrophulous habits a fatal purulent fever, or hopeless consumption.
Sometimes the parotis or maxillary glands suppurate, producing ulcers which are difficult to cure, and frequently destroy the patient, where there was a previous scrophulous tendency.
Another species of pulmonary consumption which seems more certainly of scrophulous origin is described in the next Section, No.
A young gentlewoman had an obstinate scrophulous tumour in the right side of the neck, under the maxilla.
These people are, and were, before Europeans visited them, very subject toscrophulous diseases, so that a seaman might easily mistake one disorder for another.
The people of this isle seem to be more affected with the leprosy, or some scrophulous disorder, than any I have seen elsewhere.
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