Case of elephantiasis / by George Southam ; communicated by T.B. Curling.

  • Southam, George.
Date:
[1847]
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Credit: Case of elephantiasis / by George Southam ; communicated by T.B. Curling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF ELEPHANTIASIS. By GEORGE SOUTHAM, DISPENSARY SURGEON TO THE MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY, LATE SURGEON TO THE SALFORD ROYAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY. Communicated by T. B. CURLING. Received January 11th—Read February 23rd, 1847. The following particulars of an extraordinary enlargement of the right inferior extremity will, I trust, be considered of sufficient interest to merit the attention of the Fellows of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. The patient, an unmarried, female of dark complexion and phlegmatic temperament, first came under my notice in the autumn of 1843. The disease had then existed about twenty years, and commenced when she was in her eighteenth year. It began on the dorsum of the foot, having been pre- ceded by several attacks of deep-seated pain in the part, at- tended with febrile symptoms. After the oedema appeared it became permanent, gradually but slowly extending up the leg. With the exception of an occasional return of the fever and pain, which she described as having been of a dull throb- bing character and always followed by an increase in the swelling, she felt very little inconvenience from the disease for the first eight years, beyond what was occasioned by its bulk. As it extended along the thigh, however, the pain be-