Scrophula is a morbid condition, which has been called the opprobrium of surgery, much more justly perhaps than any other disease, cancer itself not excepted, for even this most dreadful disorder may be removed by an early operation; but the nature of scrophula admits of no treatment equally successful. From the obscurity in which its causes are involved, and from no certain method of cure being known, I can only make a few unconnected remarks on this disease. A scrophulous system is generally marked by a fine skin, delicate complexion, light blue eyes, with opake sclerotica, and frequently a swelling of the upper lip. At other times, especially in those who belong to what has been called the melancholic temperament, the complexion is darker, and the skin coarser; but in these, at least when young, the face is generally tumid, and the look unhealthy. In these systems, as will presently be observed, almost every disease is different, in some points, from the same disease when it occurs in a healthy person; but the action which more decidedly manifests this modification, is the inflammatory, insomuch, that, by some, scrophula and scrophulous inflammation have been confounded; and this disease has been described only in so far as it has appeared conjoined with inflammation. We have therefore almost always in the description of scrophula a swelling of the glands, and subsequent ulceration, or inflammatory affections of other parts of the body, detailed as necessary and essential symptoms.