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XVIII. Observations on the Lepra Arabum, or Elephantiasis of the Greeks, as it appears in India
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It is, I presume, a truth pretty well established, that all such cutaneous affections as are not ushered in by particular febrile symptoms, are more common and more inveterate in hot than in temperate climates: but, with the exception of Doctors Hillary and Towne, I am not aware that any author on tropical diseases has bestowed much attention on maladies of this description, though some of them are singular in their character, and most of them very untractable.
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page 294 note † Amongst the great variety of vegetables taken as food by the Hindus, some of those picked up by the road side and eaten by the poor are of a deleterious nature, such as the Toombay keeray (Tam.) Phlomis Indica.
page 294 note ‡ He defines it as contagious,, and calls it a cancerous cácheria of the whole habit, arising from some fault in the liver or spleen, and consequent atrabilis or adust humour.—See his work, pages 3 and 4, second edition.
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page 296 note ‡ See his Diseases of Barbadoes.
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page 298 note § See Note D.
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