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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    of thefe perfons were much predifpofed to the malady, others ina {mall degree, and others again not in the leaft fufceptible of it. What then is the predifponent caufe of the Glandular difeafe? Perhaps a general relaxation of habit, and a peculiar degree of irritability in the /ymphatic fy/flem, which may be produced by our hot climate and other local circumftances. But can any reafon be affigned why thefe predifponent caufes fhal] have exifted of late years more than formerly ; or why they fhould be pe- culiar to Barbadoes, and not common to the neighbouring s/lands. The following obfervations may perhaps tend to elucidate this point, as well as feveral other circum- ftances refpecting this diarder. §.E.GsT.