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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    had no effect in stopping the constitutional disor= der, as the man died about engin hours after'the operation. Ha a a A poor girl, a patient m St. Bartholomicwts Hos- pital, who‘had met with a most éxtensive burn, and who was going on exceedingly well, and the wounds rapidly healing, ate something which dis: agreed with her, so that her stomach rejected every thing, and her bowels were continually purged; after which, the whole surface of the burnt parts; that was before perfectly healthy, mortified; put- ting on a most horrible appearance, and feverund delirium came on; and it was not until the disorder. of the stomach and bowels was removed, that the burnt parts showed any disposition to resume their — former healthy state. She, however, ultimately perfectly recovered, but the progress of the cure was very much retarded by several similar attacks, as whenever she ate anything that disordered) her stomach, a corresponding alteration in the state of the wounds immediately took places) ti © There was also a little boy in the’ Hospital, with necrosis of his tibia, in whom a similar alter- ation in the local disease was occasioned by dis- order of the stomach, brought on by taking, by mistake, some opium pills instead of some calomel and rhubarb, which he had been accustomed) to take; and the effects in this case were very extra= ordinary and remarkable. | oe eet neal