Remarks on the disease lately described by Dr. Hendy, under the appellation of the glandular disease of Barbadoes / [John Rollo].

  • Rollo, John, -1809
Date:
1785
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Credit: Remarks on the disease lately described by Dr. Hendy, under the appellation of the glandular disease of Barbadoes / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | Dr, Hillary’s defcription (7). <¢ It is much to be wifhed, that the Arabians, who are the firft Phy- ficians that have mentioned this dif; eafe, had more fully defcribed its firft fymptoms and appearance, and the manner of its coming on, and increafing to its full ftate, more ac- curately and clearly, than they or any fince them have; which defect T will endeavour to fupply, as well as I can, from repeated obferva- tions.” | | | & The patient, when apparently. in perfect health, and without any preceding procatartic caufe that he knows of, is firft feized with a cold rigor, like the fit of an ague, which, continues. (u) This is extracted from his chapter on the Ele- pauantiafis, |