Scrophulous inflammation is in general dangerous and tedious, in a degree proportioned to the effects and duration of simple inflammation upon the same parts. Thus, simple inflammation of one of the conglobate glands of the neck, is tedious, but not dangerous; and the same holds true of scrophulous inflammation; but the duration of this is much longer. Simple inflammation of the lungs, again, is dangerous; and scrophulous inflammation is infinitely more so. Such parts as heal easiest, when affected with simple inflammation, or ulceration, recover soonest from scrophulous inflammation; and the same causes which retard the one will retard the other also. Thus, the same cause which renders a superficial simple ulcer unhealthy and chronic, will prevent a superficial scrophulous ulcer from healing: But, if none of these causes operate, then scrophulous inflammation, or ulceration, will heal pretty readily, provided that simple inflammation, or ulceration of the same parts, would do so; but, for this purpose, it must be quickly induced; for all inflammation, or ulceration, which is slowly induced, is slowly removed. As a confirmation of these positions, we find, that a blister on a scrophulous person will heal readily, because the inflammation is induced acutely, or with a certain degree of quickness, and has, when the affection is simple, a promptitude to heal, which manifests itself also in scrophulous people. In this instance, the difference in the time required to heal the inflammation in a sound and a scrophulous person is not perceptible; because the affection, if simple, has a tendency to heal immediately. But, in a deep wound, especially if contused, we find the difference more marked; because here, although the constitution be healthy, the duration of the disease is considerable; and, in a scrophulous person, the cure is protracted still longer, and the sore assumes a specific appearance. In diseases of the glands, the difference is still more perceptible; because the disease, although simple, is longer in duration. In affections of the bones and cartilages, the same is observed. When a bone is fractured in a healthy person, it unites without inflaming; and, in a scrophulous person, unless the diathesis be exceedingly strong, it likewise does so, but the union is longer of taking place; but, if a bone inflames in a sound person, the disease is very tedious; and, in a scrophulous habit, it is infinitely more so. The same holds true with regard to tendons and cartilages; and hence the greater danger of a sprain in a scrophulous than a healthy person. From these, and other facts, which it is altogether unnecessary to mention, it fully appears, that scrophulous inflammation is tedious and dangerous, in proportion to the progress and effects of simple inflammation and its consequences, when it attacks the same parts; but this proportion is not regular and uniform; but the duration increases, in a higher