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

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 / by John Rollo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Dr. Hillary’s defcription («). <e 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 defedt I will endeavour to fupply, as well as I can, from repeated obferva-*- tions.” “ The patient, when apparently in perfedt 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 extratkd from his chapter on the Ele« phantiafis.