Historia de la escrófula: de la discrasia humoral a la consunción
Rev. méd. Chile; 144 (4), 2016
The term scrofula was used for a long time to designate a chronic swelling of cervical lymph nodes. This paper outlines the prevalent ideas on the nature, pathogenesis and the treatment of this disorder, from classical Greek medicine up to the 18th century. A Hippocratic treatise regarded scrofula as...