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the same method of treatment. To give fruitfulness to t 
- by determining a sufficient quantity of nervous: influence 
peg Be sad the oil of cloves: this, therefore, ought not to. be « 
ted in ahy medicines that are given, calculated for that p é 
_ The clove jelly, with perhaps the addition of the tineture of can- 
tharides, will consequently be a powerful remedy, Or, take halfan 
ounce of oil of cloves, dissolve in the yoke of an egg, and then add 
an ounce and a half of tincture of cantharides: By RS drops let 
two tea-spoons{u] be taken night and morning. te 
Together with these, let general strengthening medicines, and 
chalybeates, be used, as the tonic tincture, the female strengthening 
“syrup, and such like, — + ts ee 
In the meantime the patient should abstain from ation, = 
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SCROFULA, OR KING’S EVIL. 
This disease chiefly affects the glands, especially those of the neck. . 
Children and young persons, of a sedentary life, are very subject to 
it. ‘The inhabitants of cold, damp, and marshy countries are most 
subject to it. It was called king’s evil froman imaginary cure per- 
formed by the royal touch. dtd eee yg 
Cacses.—An acrid blood, hereditary disposition, venereal taint, — 
or a scrofulous nurse. Children born of sickly parents, are apt to 
be affected with the scrofula. It may likewise proceed from suc 
diseases as weaken the habit, or vitiate the humors, as the 
~ pox, measles, &c. In short, whatever tends to vitiate the 
or relax the solids, paves the way to scrofula ; as the want o' “proper 
exercise, too much heat or cold, confined air, unwholesome food, — 
bad water, the long use of poor, weak, watery aliments, the neglect 
of cleanliness, &c. $ se 
es 
Symproms.—At first small knots appcar under the chin, or 
hind the ears, which gradually increase in number and size, ti 
_ form one large hard tumor. This often continues fer a le 
__ Without breaking, and when it does break, it only discha 
_ acrid, watery humor. Other parts of the body are likewis 
‘s, as the arm-pits, groins, feet, hands, eyes, breast, &c. 
nal parts exempt from it. It often affects the lings, 
s gland, &c., and frequently the glands of the _ 
mesentery are. enlarged by it. ae 
e1 set and hands, 
} 
Those obstinate u which break out upon the fe 
with swelling, and little or no redness, are af sti. porofatous ki a 
They seldom discharge good matter, and are more difficult of 
The white swellings of the joints seem likewise to be of this 
I have seen the ecaif of a man’s Jeg swelled with a scrofulous h 
till it measured two feet in circumference. There is not 
: ymptom of scrofula than a swelling of the upp 
sometimes begins in a toe or finger, which conti 
with no great degree of pain, till the 
