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348 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
weak spines, and are liable to ulcerations and hernia.
Its ravages begin before birth, and end only with death.
Lugo! estimates that one quarter
of all scrofulous
children are destroyed by spontaneous abortion. Scrof
ulous infants die of convulsions, and dropsy of the brain,
cholera infantum, consumption of the lungs, bowels, and
spine, and scrofula makes all diseases dangerous. In
the mucous membranes it causes sore eyes, running
from the nose and ears, worms, whites, diarrhoea, etc.
In the skin it produces chilblains, eruptions of the eye-
on the face and
fids and around the ears ; pustules
chest; tubercles and abscesses in the cellular tissue;
rickets and rotting of the bones ; tubercular consump
tion of the lungs, liver, and every soft organ of the
body. In fact, according to Lugol, the accumulation of
morbid matter, in the form of tubercle, is the great char
acteristic of this disease.
We can not always tell what determines the disease
to any particular organ. Of several scrofulous children,
one may have ophthalmia, one rickets, a third enlarge
ment of the glands of the neck, or king's evil ; others
cutaneous affections, deep ulcers, white swelling, hip-
disease, convulsions, hydrocephalus, pulmonary con
sumption, etc., etc., but it is all one disease—all scrof
ula. This disease accompanies, and is, doubtless, caused
by activity and excess in the generative function. The
too great amativeness of parents produces scrofulous
children, who, inheriting the disease of the passion, as
well as the organism, develop the latter by the former.
So goes on this work of death.
Scrofula destroys its victims at every stage. There
are abortions in gestation ; deaths from all the diseases