Practical observations on the disease of the joints, commonly called white-swelling : with remarks on caries, necrosis, and scrofulous abscess, in which a new and successful method of treating these complaints is pointed out / by Bryan Crowther.

  • Crowther, Bryan, 1765-1840.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Practical observations on the disease of the joints, commonly called white-swelling : with remarks on caries, necrosis, and scrofulous abscess, in which a new and successful method of treating these complaints is pointed out / by Bryan Crowther. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment which in many instances I deem highly objectionable. Were this notion well founded, how hap- pens it that the practice, deducible from such a theor}% is not found by experience prop option ably successful ? that it is not I am fully persuaded, and I appeal to the practitioners of London for the truth of mj assertion. From my own obsers^ation, however, I must aver that such an uniformity' in the appearance of scrofula, dependent on a de- bihtated state of constitution, does not exist ^^1th us in England; for many are to be found with strumous affections, who in other respects are healthy and strong. To such the cordial and invigorating mode of treatment, I have observed, has not only been of mischievous tendency, but