Volume 2

A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula; describing its connection with the diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, etc. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for ... 1818, was adjudged ... To which is added, a brief account of the ophthalmia so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / By Eusebius Arthur Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, Eusebius Arthur.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula; describing its connection with the diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, etc. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for ... 1818, was adjudged ... To which is added, a brief account of the ophthalmia so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / By Eusebius Arthur Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same cause can exert an equal influence locally, or on a particular part, I shall state the following facts to prove it :— A poorman was brought into St. Bartholomew’s _ Hospital with a compound fracture of his leg, pro- duced by the kick of a horse; the tibia protruded, and the parts around were much bruised, and sloughed away to a considerable extent, but the chasm beeame filled up with healthy granulations, and. at the end of a fortnight the man was in par- ticularly good health, free from all fever, or any species of irritation. At this time, which was ona Sunday, his friends, who lived in the country, came to,see! him, and brought him a large plum: pud- ding, and other substantial provision, of which he ate most heartily, and in the evening was quite sick. During the night a high degree of fever came on; and towards morning he became delirious. Upon examining the wound to dress it, which was before perfectly healthy, its'edges were found in a state of mortification, the granulations were all absorbed, and the tibia was exposed; so remarkable was the change which had been produced in the state of | the wound, by this accidental derangement. of the digestive organs, in the short space of twelve hours. On the following evening the wound was surrounded witherysipelatous inflammation,which, on the next day, was spreading so rapidly that the limb was obliged to be amputated: this, however,