An essay on the nature of scrofula, with evidence of its origin from disorder of the digestive organs. Illustrated by ... cases ... and interspersed with observations on the general treatment of children / [Richard Carmichael].

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849
Date:
1810
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    sease where there is no suspicion of scrofula, and retires with the worm-symptoms ” -* and a medical friend informs me that a lady, his near relation, always knows when her child requires medicine by the swelling of the upper lip, which the exhibition of a purgative never fails to remove, although the child has not been troubled with worms. It may even be shortly ascertamed that the sore- - ness of the edges of the eyelids which 1s a most constant symptom of scrofula, is caused by irrita- tion in the prime vie. This idea was suggested to me by the appearance of that complaint m a young lady, who is very subject. to worms, the -presence of which she is always informed of by the inflam- mation and soreness of the tarsi, but at other times she is free from that symptom. I mention this solitary fact only with the view. of exciting the attention. of others ‘to the subject. So decidedly however are the foregoing symptoms, either in part or collectively, the forerunners of the more obvious phenomena of scrofula, that I have been seldom disappointed in finding, in children, an indurated state of some of the glands about the lower jaw, whenever a pale, peevish, sickly look, a prominent belly, emaciation and wasting of the body, attended with keenness of appetite, indicate disorder of the system, even though swelling of the upper lip and other symptoms of scrofula should not be present. In another place I shall consider the disorder of the digestive organs more at large; at present it is — * Home's Clinical Experiments and Histories, p. 465