A treatise on the nature of scrofula, in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease, on new principles illustrated by various facts and observations, explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases / [William E. Farr].

  • Farr, William E., 1938-
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on the nature of scrofula, in which an attempt is made to account for the origin of that disease, on new principles illustrated by various facts and observations, explanatory of a method for its complete eradication; together with an appendix, containing several interesting cases / [William E. Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘PREFACE. Tue unparalleled success which has attended the mode of treatment described in the following pages, and the many advantages I possessed under Mr. Brandish, whose practice in cases of Scrofula was most extensive; together with several years’ experience subsequent to that period, will, I humbly hope, give me some claim to public con- fidence on the present occasion, and entitle my suggestions to a candid attention. I should not, however, have ventured to pre- sent myself at the bar of criticism as an Author, knowing that men deservedly celebrated, and justly eminent in the profession have written largely on the Pathology of Scrofula : yet, with all due submission to their judgment and talents, I think I may safely presume to assert, that theory, rather than practice, has engrossed the attention