Volume 2

A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.

  • Hendy, James
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    properly compared with the diforders of other countries. I have made yery ftrict inquiry, and have not been able to difco- , ver, with any degree of certainty, that it ever did appear in the neighbouring D/ands, | except only in one inftance, which I fhall mention. Notwithftanding this, perhaps the difeafe may have been overlooked ; time however, and more accurate obferva- tion, will fhortly determine this matter. There is a malady, which though not per- -fectly deferibed, feems, by the brief account given of it by Mr. Clarke, to be fomewhat fimilar in its appearances to the Glandular diforder, when it affects the feet and the /egs. “« The firft fettlement on the Malabar coaft, of “© any note, belonging to the Englith, zs Anjon- << oa*, Near the fhore, the laud ts low and “* qvoody, and the water bad. Cocheen, belong “* ing to the Dutch fetétlers, 1s fituated on the ‘< banks of a river, In the wet feafon, as tor- ** rents of rain defcend from the mountains, all “* the water 1s thick and muddy. It 1s fuppofed, << that the monftrous fwelled legs to which the * This fhould be Anjengo. “4 © natives
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