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.

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    cafes he has publifhed, three only excepted, prove the exigence of fever, and thefe three cafes, as will afterwards appear, are inadmiffible, and all of the cafes alfo prove, that the inflammation and fwelling of the extremity come on as the fever goes off-. Therefore, the local fymp- toms cannot be faid to precede the fever; efpecially, as this inflamma- tion and fwelling of the extremity is the principal part of the local aT fedlion, and lays the foundation of the enormous leg. By Dr. Hillary’s defcription, fymptoms of fever conftantly pre- cede the local fymptoms, hence his opinion that the local complaints are truly the effedt of the Fever. In the.