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Title: Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer
With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment

Author: John Kent

Release Date: November 13, 2007 [EBook #23468]

Language: English

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OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND NATURE

OF

SCROFULA OR KING'S EVIL,

SCURVY, AND CANCER;

WITH

CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF A PECULIAR MODE OF
TREATMENT.

[Illustration: "All Plants, from the Hyssop on the wall to the Cedar
of Lebanon, have some essential parts."]

BY J. KENT,
_Stanton, Suffolk_.

_Eighth Edition._

BURY ST. EDMUND'S:
PRINTED BY W. B. FROST, 34, CHURCHGATE STREET.

MDCCCXXXIII.

PREFACE.

In consequence of the extreme prevalence of Scrofulous, Scorbutic, and
Cancerous Diseases, and the ignorance which exists on the part of the
public, as to their causes, symptoms, and nature, I have been induced
to reprint my observations on those subjects, and to send forth an
Eighth Edition for the information of the afflicted.

To these remarks, I have appended a relation of several cases, which
have been cured by a peculiar mode of treatment which I have been in
the habit of employing for twenty-six years; during which long period I
have seen and treated an immense number of cases of the above
description.

These cases I have rendered very concise, preferring the main points
in each to a verbose and tiresome description of the minutiae; and
although the number might have been extended to many hundreds, I trust
a sufficiency have been detailed to establish the success of my
practice, and to show the afflicted the nature and modes of attack of
the diseases above mentioned.

I have confined myself t