278 Facts relative to the Diseases common to 



are not wholly exempted from this mental affection, so 

 far as such affection is really connected with an en- 

 larged, or otherwise diseased state of the glandula thy- 

 roixfca*. 



III. Cachexiae. 



To this class, Mr. Blumenbach refers the following 

 diseases, viz. : 



1. Rickets, 



2. Scrophula, 



3. The Venereal Disease ^ 



4. Pelagra, 



5. Leprosy with Elephantiasis. 



The two first of these affections are put down with 

 the mark of doubt. But it was not necessary to ex- 

 press any kind of doubt, whether other animals, besides 

 man, are subject to Scrophula. 



We have just seen, that various species of animals 

 are afflicted with goitre, a disease sometimes considera- 

 bly allied to scrophula. But, passing by this fact, I 

 know, from my own observations, that dogs are subject 

 to swellings of the lymphatic- glands, which, if not truly 

 scrophulous, we know not how to distinguish from 

 scrophulaf. I think the Horse is subject to a similar 



* Sec my Memoir, Sec. Pages 49, 87, I , 



t The (!c>c;, as I sliall show in another memoir, is also aflli 

 with Hepatitis, in certaii tan. 



