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to be entirely fubdued by a few years refi- 

 dence in England, yet again recurs oa the 

 patient returning to Barbadoes. 



Some regard the difeafe in a directly op*. 



pofite point of view, confidering the glandular 

 tumor, with its -attendant inflammation of the 

 lymphatics, as the primary affection, and the 

 fever merely as fymptomatic. It is not con- 

 iiflcnt with my prefent purpofe, nor does ex- 

 perience warrant me to enter more minutely 

 into this queftion ; but I may offer you a few 

 -extracts of cafes wherefromyou will be enabled 

 to collect a more j uft and accurate idea of the 

 commencement, and the progrefs of this 

 lingular and diftrefiing malady, 



" Mr. Daniel Maffiah, aged fifty-three, of 

 the Jewifli religion, was a very healthy boy 

 till eighteen, when he was attacked with a dif- 

 eafe, which at that period was very unufual 

 indeed. Without any known caufe, he com- 

 plained of a forenefs, and fweliing of the left 

 groin. When he had felt this about a quar- 

 ter of an hour, he was feized with the cold fit 

 of fever; a burning hot fever fucceeded, which 

 was followed by profuie fw eating. The whole 



