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of the difeafe : but in many cafes the im- 

 menfe tumor of the leg terminates abruptly at 

 the ancle, hanging over the foot in knotty, 

 and fcaly excrefcences. The deformity thus 

 becomes diverfified — the enormous bulk of 

 leg appearing under a variety of unfeemly and 

 difgufting forms. As the enlargement in- 

 creafes, the whole extremity becomes hard and 

 fcaly ; and the diftended (kin, which, at firft, 

 indented, grows thick and corneous, and 

 wholly refifts the preffure of the finger. 



It has been found on difle&ion that, from 

 the efFufed lymph which originally caufed the 

 tumor having become coagulated and harden- 

 ed, the fubftance of the enlarged limb has 

 afTumed an appearance not unlike brawn — the 

 morbid fkin, and the cellular membrane under 

 it, having grown into a tough, horny, and 

 aSmoft cartilaginous confidence. 



From this unfightly malady being moftly 

 accompanied with fever of an intermittent 

 type, we often hear it termed "the fever and 

 ague. 95 Indeed from the periodical returns of 

 the paroxyfms, and from the tumefaction fuc- 

 -ceediug to them, the difeafe has been very 



