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be very frequent, but lately have been much 

 diminifhed, both in number and feveritv." 



<{ The hiftoryof the patient's cafe, whofe 

 leg I differed, as far as I could inform myfelf, 

 was as follows :— She had laboured under the 

 glandular difeafe for ten years : the firft at- 

 tack was at fifteen years of age, and was at- 

 tended with fever. At every return fhe found 

 her leg much inflamed, increafed in fize, faff, 

 contracted, and gradually enlarged, till it be- 

 came fo enormous as to be extremely trouble- 

 fome. She then applied to me to perform 

 amputation, of which fhe recovered ; but was 

 foon after feized with the fame difeafe in the 

 other leg, and died in confequence of it %" , 



Different opinions have been held re- 

 fpe&ing the origin of this fingular affection. 

 From it being mo ft frequent, or firft obferved 

 among the negroes, many have believed it to 

 be imported with them from the fhores of Afri- 

 ca. But this opinion is divefted of probability, 

 by the extraordinary prevalence of the difeafe 

 at Barbadoes. Were it brought by the flaves 



* Hendy on the glandular difeafe of Barbadoes. 



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