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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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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    that it fhould be purfued by thofe who enjoy more extenfive opportunities of obferving the difeafe. In the meanwhile, it may not be altogether ufe- lefs to give a rude view of the range of the goitre in the date of New-York. I mean its range from eaft to weft. Of its extent from north to fouth I can fay nothing that deferves attention. I find the difeafe in the vicinity of Old-Fort- Schuyler, about twenty miles from the head of the Mohock-River. Here, indeed, we obferve fome of the worft cafes of it#. It is not uncommon at Fort-Herkerner, on the German-Flats; at Fort- Dayton; and at Henderfon-town, as already men¬ tioned. I am aflured, that it has never been feen quite as low down the Mohock as the Little-Falls of this river, about fifty-fix miles weft of Albany. It is unknown at Schenectady, except by name. From this view of the fubject, we may, per¬ haps, for the prefent, fix upon the Little-Falls of the Mohock, as the utmoft limit, towards the eaft (I mean along the river), of this difeafe. From the vici¬ nity of the Falls to the village of 01d-Fort-Schuyler,it appears to prevail more or lefs ; and from this place, weftward and fouth-weftward, through a conftder-