Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de morbo glandulari Barbadensi.

  • Caddell, Walter.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de morbo glandulari Barbadensi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ !5 ] a glands of the groin, attended with fever ; but « thefe fubfided without retura. “ In feveral inflances of feamen, whofe legs were “ taken off in a weak flate, the flump has fallen « into this difeafe, becoming very large, and perma. “ nently fo. “ The arms of patients who have had feveral “ glands removed, fall into the fame flate. “ A gentleman in Grenada, afterwards rny pa- “ tient, had a difeafe of this kind in his nofe, from “ much expqfure to the fun ; and an inflammation. “ coming upon his face, his nofe was naturally un- “ ufually large at the end, making it peculiarly fa- “ vourable for this difeafe.’> Doftor Hendy hasc verba habet: ‘c The Ifland “ of Antigua has furnifhed me with one or two in- “ flances of this difeafe.” His breviter memoratis, hunc morbum noflrae regioni non proprium efle fatis manifeflum efl ; quas vero mutationes in infula noflra fubit, ubi endemi- cus efl, flatim dicendum ; et hoc confilio nunc quo- modo impetum facit defcribendum. AiGER, qui optima valetudine olim potitus efl, B 2