‘A Sad Inheritance of Misery’: The Cultural Life of Hereditary Scrofula in Eighteenth-Century England [PDF]
Medical HistoryThis essay argues that scrofula was one of several disorders, including gout, rickets, and venereal disease, that were ‘rebranded’ as hereditary in response to broader cultural changes that took place during the Restoration and eighteenth century in ...
Noelle Gallagher
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An overlooked eighteenth-century scrofula pamphlet: changing forms and changing readers, 1760–1824 [PDF]
Science Museum Group Journal, 2019 This article tells the story of an eighteenth-century medical pamphlet called An essay on the nature and cure of the King’s Evil, deduced from observation and practice. This was written by John Morley (d. 1776/7), a wealthy Essex landowner who advertised
Hannah Bower
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Scrofula : Tuberculous Cervical Lymphadenitis - A Case Report
Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2005 Tuberculosis caused mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is disease that has increased in prevalence in recent years, largely caused by immunocompromised HIV population in developing country.
Bhawana Bhagat +3 more
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Epidemiology of cervico-facial pediatric lymphadenitis as a result of nontuberculous mycobacteria
International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2012 Cervical lymphadenitis as a result of nontuberculous mycobacteria, otherwise known as scrofula, is a disease occurring almost exclusively in immunocompetent young children. The most frequent mycobacterial species responsible is Mycobacterium avium, but a
Enrico Tortoli
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A Cervical Mass in An HIV-positive Patient
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2018 We describe an HIV-infected man with a left side cervical swelling which finally diagnosed with tuberculosis.In contrast to HIV-negative persons, nearly all tuberculous lymphadenitis (scrofula), the most kind of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, in patients ...
Ali Asadollahi-Amin +1 more
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A Case of Reactive Cervical Lymphadenopathy with Fat Necrosis Impinging on Adjacent Vascular Structures [PDF]
Case Reports in Otolaryngology, 2016 A tender neck mass in adults can be a diagnostic challenge due to a wide differential diagnosis, which ranges from reactive lymphadenopathy to malignancy.
Albert Y. Han +4 more
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Historical Perspectives on Scrofula: Competing Medical Discourses and Public Health Implications at the Turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century. [PDF]
J Prev Med HygThis article examines how scrofula was classified as a distinct disease in Danish medical history around the turn of the 20th century. Dr. Niemeyer, a naturopathic advocate, attributed scrofula to an unhealthy composition of bodily fluids, whereas Dr ...
Kirk UB, Wejse C, Kallestrup P.
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A Rare Clinical Presentation of Multifocal Tuberculous Osteomyelitis of the Right Parietal and Left Calcaneal Bones in an 11-Year-Old Male: A Case Report. [PDF]
Case Rep Infect DisPaediatric multifocal tuberculous osteomyelitis is a rare and severe clinical entity of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Globally, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the most common cause of necrotising granulomatous inflammation. The diverse clinical presentations of multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis and its paucibacillary characteristic pose a ...
Evele G +6 more
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Tuberculous Scrofula: Belfast Experience [PDF]
, 2015 The Belfast blitzes of 1941 are blamed in our family for the scrofula of my younger brother and sister and myself. Guinea pigs and rabbits at Musgrave Park proved that each of us had bovine derived TB infection caused by failure to pasteurize milk when ...
Milamed, Debra, Hedley-Whyte, John
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A Rare Encounter of Cervical Tuberculous Lymphadenitis (Scrofula) in an Immunocompetent Adolescent Female: A Case Report. [PDF]
CureusTuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health concern. While it primarily affects the lungs, TB can also present in extrapulmonary forms, with cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis (CTL) or scrofula being the most common.
Uche IK, Kansara S, O'Neal CS.
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