A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Benjamin Smith Barton
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A memoir concerning the disease of goitre as it prevails in different parts of North America / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at Fort-Herkemer, on the German-Flats, fixteen or eighteen miles nearly fouth-eaft of Qld-Fort- Schuyler. It is alfo frequent at Fort-Dayton ; and at a village, called Henderfon-town, about feven miles fouth of Fort-Herkemer* Some of the mod remarkable cafes of the dif- eafe are in a Dutch family which lives upon the north fide of the Mohock-river, immediately oppo* fite to Old-Fort-Schuyler* This family confids of a father, a mother, and four or five children. Every one of them is afflidled with the goitre. The fwellings occafion fome of them to look hide¬ ous. This family removed from the river below this, to the place where they now* dwell, about fifteen years ago, at which time they had nothing of the difeafe among them. In the courfe of my journey from Old-Fort- Schuyler, fouth-wedward, to the Cayuga-Lake, a didance of about eighty miles, I had an opportunity of acquiring farther information concerning the difeafe, which in fome parts of the country is known by the name of the “ Swelled Neck.” In ai¬ med the whole of this tract of country, the goitre prevails to fuch a degree, that every adult I met * In 1797, fince which time I have heard nothing farther concerning this unfortunate family.