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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    information we can derive from his account, is, that the white inhabitants, as well as the negroes, were fubjed to enlarged legs: but it does not appear from him that they were the confequence of this difeafe of the lym- phatics. He fays nothing of the Fever which is frequently produced, or of the me- thod oicure. He affirms, contrary to what wc now generally obferve, that thofe per- fons are chiefly liable to the difeafe, who have previoufly experienced fome other te- dious illnefs j for although convalefcents arc not exempt from this diforder, yet it moft commonly attacks thofe who are otherwife in apparent health, and have not been af- feded with any other difeafe from which we might have any reafon to conclude, that thefe enlargements were induced by a de-. pofition of vitiated humours. In the be- '^ginning, fays the Dodor, a per/on is iveak, «* cacheBicak and emaciated, till the glut of ** vitiated hUmours fuhfide into the legs and *' feet, which at this time begin to appear oedcmatousy &c. The error of this af- fertion will appear hereafter. Dodor
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