Practical observations on the disease of the joints : commonly called white swelling : with some remarks on scrofulous abscesses.

  • Crowther, Bryan, 1765-1840.
Date:
1797
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    in that mode of practice, the ulti- mate fuccefs of which has more than equalled my expectations, and which it is the objeCt of the prefent Work to eftablifh. Moft of the patients whom I have feen afflicted with this diforder, were of a ftrumous habit, and defcended from parents of a fimilar conftitution : in fome cafes, it has alfo appeared, that many of their families have been deftroyed by phthifis pulmonalis• I have generally obferved, indeed, that children whofe parents were un- healthy, or had married at a late period of life, were more particularly fubjeCt to fcrofulous affeCtions. Many authors, as well as practi- tioners, of the prefent day, have con- fidered acrimony of lymph to be a primary caufe of white-fwelling.—■ This