Discouraging symptoms are anaemia, debility, coexisting gastric dyspepsia, an inherited hypochondriacal tendency, or the strumous diathesis in children.
It is unfortunately too true that some of them are often beyond the resources of medical skill, but in many cases the initial manifestations of the strumous diathesis are either entirely neglected or inappropriately treated.
The connection of the indigestion of fats with the strumous diathesis and with phthisis is undisputed.
In the strumous dyspepsia of children the white, almost waxy, skin is covered with dry scales, which may be seen over the whole body from head to foot.
We have already stated our belief that the strumous are neither more intelligent nor stupid mentally than other people.
Hughes Bennett traced the origin of phthisis to defective fat-digestion; strumous indigestion and the indigestion of fat are synonymous terms.
When these abscesses are of strumousorigin the pus is thin, curdy, and offensive.
In some individuals, especially strumousand tuberculous subjects, there is a constitutional proclivity to chronicity or to the recurrence of the peculiar manifestations.
Several of the older authors have classed rickets in the category of strumous diseases, and it may be that in the fatal cases tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands is a local expression of this diathesis.
This is especially true with children exhibiting the physical signs of the strumous diathesis.
This is very easy to do in the weak limbs of strumous patients, and may cause exfoliation, and greatly delay cure.
Caries of the head, neck, and trochanters of the femur is a very common disease in this variable climate, and frequently connected with the strumous taint.
But it happened in these our days, that a strumous patient on presenting one halfpenny to the staff, the humour subsided only in the middle; but when the oblation was completed by the other halfpenny, an entire cure was accomplished.
The plant has likewise a popular reputation for healing scrofula, and its tincture is beneficial for reducing enlarged glands, as of the neck and throat; also for strumous swelling of the knee joint, as well as of other joints.
The tincture is very useful in mental stupor, with functional impairment of the hearing and sight; likewise for strumous water on the brain.
This fruit is soft, easily digested, and corrective of strumous disease.
Like the strawberry, if eaten without sugar and cream, it does not undergo any acetous fermentation in the stomach, even with gouty or strumous persons.
The leaves of the American Black Walnut tree, which grows naturally in Virginia, are of the highest curative value for scrofulous diseases and for strumous eruptions.
Furthermore, they prepare a sea-pod essence for applying on a wet compress beneath waterproof tissue to strumous tumours, goitre, and bronchocele; also for old strains and bruises.
It is to be noticed that though most commonly wholesome and refreshing, yet with some persons, particularly those of a strumous bodily habit, Strawberries will often disagree.
Fijians were admitted for ulcerations of strumous origin.
Strumous ulcerations of the limbs are the commonest diseases in Fiji.
The treatment consists in removing a wedge-shaped portion of the swelling on the same lines as for "strumous lip," or in employing electrolysis.
Calcium Salts: the phosphate in rickets, in delay of union of fractures; the chloride in strumous subjects.
Calcium Chloride: in the colliquative diarrhea of strumous children, and in chronic diarrhea with weak digestion.
Creosote: internally in strumous subjects, and where mercury is not borne.
The child of a strumous habit may be greatly benefited by sea bathing, united with a few years' residence on the coast.
If the infant derives the disposition to a strumous constitution entirely from the father, and the mother's health be unexceptionable, then I would strongly advise her to suckle her own child.
The second, a girl, was unfortunate in her nurse, she being of a strumous and unhealthy constitution, although to a casual observer bearing the appearance of health.
If a child is of a delicate and strumous constitution, the cold bath during the summer is one of the best tonics that can be employed; and if living on the coast, sea-bathing will be found of singular benefit.
Cod-liver oil and iodide of iron are required, especially by patients of strumous diathesis, the object being to promote a more healthy state of system, so as to prevent extension of the inflammation and facilitate the healing process.
Now, are we sure that it is from its parents that each child, exposed to these morbific surroundings, has obtained its disposition to strumous disorders?
This is especially apt to occur in strumous and feeble children.
Among other common causes are unequal or imperfect development of the nasal bones, due to an inherited strumous tendency and local ulcerative disease, weakening or destroying the bone.
All these conditions indicate that a few exposures and severe colds are often sufficient to produce a train of symptoms, which terminate in pulmonary or other strumous affections.
The exciting causes are irritation of the skin, strumous diathesis, dentition, and any violation of hygienic rules.
Perceval observes, that of twenty-two cases of which he kept notes, eleven were certainly strumous children, and four were probably so.
When a whole family is swept away by Hydrocephalus, I suspect it is intimately connected with this strumous taint.
Before that time of life, the tumour is generally of a strumous nature, and this should not be confounded with the malignant; for the one is remediable under the influence of constitutional means, the other is not.
As, however, corneitis is frequently kept up in its chronic form, from deficient constitutional power in strumous habits, strict attention must be paid to the diet and secretions of the patient.
The bones, instrumous subjects, are often much enlarged, from collection of purulent matter in their substance giving rise to a sort of spina ventosa.
In strumous habits both are frequently affected in a slight degree; and the upper lid, too, is sometimes turned a little outwards.
The strumous diathesis is said to be marked by hair and irides of a very light colour, and by the skin being of a peculiar white hue; but, in some instances, the complexion is unusually dark and sallow.
The strumous diathesis is said to depend upon a want of balance, or proportion, between the solids and circulating fluids.
Chronic thickening of the Scalp is a consequence, by no means unfrequent, of slight injuries in those of strumous habit, but may also occur without any assignable cause.
In strumous constitutions specks of the cornea are often accompanied with ulceration of the edges of the palpebræ, and destruction of the ciliæ—the ophthalmia tarsi.
It may also be found useful in cases of Syphilis, when aggravated by a previously existing strumous tendency, and where a course of Mercury cannot be safely prescribed.
It is possibly by a similar action that it seems able to counteract the deposit of crude tubercle, and exerts a special action in the prevention and cure of strumous disorders.
This medicine also contains Iodine; and either this preparation, or the Iodide of Potassium, should be prescribed when the skin disease appears to be connected with a strumous diathesis.
The strumous diathesis, which originates in the fluids, and not in the nervous system, is affirmed by Dr.
In a weakly and strumous child it may be brought on by a sudden fright which would not affect one of a good constitution.
The disease is slow and persistent, and is commonly met with in girls and young women, usually of strumous type.
It is not infrequently observed in the strumous and debilitated.
Cod-liver oil is often a remedy of great value, and is especially useful in strumous and debilitated subjects.
The condition responds to tonics and anti-strumous remedies.
He was, according to Lettsom's reminiscences, thin and pale, and of a strumous countenance.
When there was an osseous fibrous hand the case was of a strumous origin, it was due to the presence of organisms.
Another regarded at first as a strumous joint was eventually cured by somewhat violent manipulation.
In the course of this discussion only one point of the Bone-setter’s practice was alluded to—that of rigid or strumous joints, as if the renown of the Bone-setters art rested on these alone.
If he has a strumous joint he will be more or less injured, while if he has a bunion, or a node on his tibia, he will find himself neither better nor worse for his venture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strumous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
