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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    ( «9 ) may vary in its degree, but this will depend on the Phlogiftic diathefis prevailing in the fyftem, and on the ftate of the local inflammation, and not on exterior and contingent in- fluences. It never aflumes the form of a perfedt paroxyfm of fever, of a Remittent or continued fever, with fymptoms of general putrefcency. I think myfelf now at liberty to fet afide Dr. Hendy’s definition of this difeafe, as being a local inflamma- tion feated in the lymphatic fyftem, that often produces a fymptomatic fever. And for the fame reafons which have given me this liberty, it is imagined the offer of the fol- lowing definition will be juftified. A