On elephantiasis as it exists in Travancore / by Edward John Waring.
- Edward John Waring
- Date:
- [between 1850 and 1859?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On elephantiasis as it exists in Travancore / by Edward John Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![speak with confidence. Mr. Anderson, the Apothecary at Alleppee, (No. 49 in Alleppee list) cites the case of an old Mussulmanee woman aged 80, in whom tlie disease had existed only two years, making her age at its invasion 78 years. Where the disease was of recent origin, of course the patients could speak more confidently as to the age at which it commenced. The part or 'parts affected with Elephantiasis was a point to which particular attention was directed, and here we have the advantage of not being obliged to trust to the statements of the patients, but had only to abide by the evidence of our own senses.* Hight lower extremity „ ,, and right hand, „ ,, left hand, .. „ „ both hands, Left lower extremity, ,, ,, and right hand, ,, „ left hand, „ „ Scrotum, Both lower extremities, ,, „ and both hands, ,, „ left hand, „ „ right hand, „ ,, left mamma, „ „ left hand, left Mamma and two fingers of right hand, Scrotum, Bight hand alone, Left hand alone, Lobe of ear, 296] 15 15 16 y i i Right lower extremity either alone or with other parts 507 or 32*49 per Cent. Left lower extremity either alone or with other parts 287 or 30-87 per Cent. Roth lower extremities either alone or with other parts 344 or 36-40 per Cent. Other parts 7 or 0*74 per Cent. 945 This Table contains much interesting: and suggestive matter for consideration. The most striking feature is the great frequency of the disease in the lower extremities, in comparison with the upper. If we take the cases in which the lower and the upper extremities were affected, setting aside those in which the disease likewise existed in other parts, we find to 859 of the former, only 3 of the latter. The rarity of the upper extremity becoming the seat of the disease, without its previous existence in some other part of the body, may be judged of, by this statement. * The reader will see, by comparing these figures with those in the Shaer- tullay List in the Appendix (b) that the proportions in both tables cljsely approximate to each other.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28141787_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
