Excerpt from Clinical Lectures, on Scrofulous Neck: On Scrofulous Neck
Gentlemen, - The malady which will occupy our attention to-day* has arrested the attention of physicians from the earliest times of which we have any definite record to the present moment. So far as we may judge from the evidence . before us, no age and no race of men in our own Continent have been beyond the reach of scrofula; all civilised men have striven with it, all kinds of remedies, rational or fantastic, have been set against it; kings and queens have willed the cure of princes and philosophers, as well as of humbler folk; images have been carried before patients in vain, lustral waters sprinkled in vain, and we doctors have to take up a task which is beyond the touch of kings or the conjurations of priests.
That the ugly finger of scrofula should be laid chiefly upon children, young men, and maidens, bus this pathos in it, that it disfigures them at the spring-time of life-at that time when hope and promise make all life precious, and all death seem the loss of untold treasure; when beauty and gaiety have their fleeting day, and for the loss of them the world is poorer.
Eagerly, then, do we desire to disperse this evil burden, and to restore health and symmetry to the sufferers.
It is well known to most of you that scrofulous neck for the ancients made up the whole of " scrofula," a name derived from the scrofous or sow-like fulness which it imparts to the neck and jaws of the patient.
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