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tiaffo in Madeira, which Dr. Thomas
Hcberden defcribes in the firft volume
of his Medical Tranfaclions, almoft
one hundred years after Cleyer, is entirely
the fame.
It is very remarkable that this difeafe
has preferved its nature ib per-
fedly in the moft northern parts during
more than a. hundred years, and
remained intirely fimilar to that in
the hotteft climates. The fame difeafe
appears at Martigiies in Provence, and
has been defcribed by Dr. Johannes in
the firft volume o f the Medical Obfervations
and Inquiries : that it has
been in the Ferro iflands, may be feen
in the firft volume o f Bartholin’s Aclis
Hafnienfibus.
The difeafe obferved in Norway,
which Mr. Anthony Rol. Martin defcribes
ill the Tranfailions of the Swedifli
Royal Academy o f Sciences, in
the latter end of the year 1760, may
likewife be reckoned amongft tliis
clafs ; as alfo that which appeared in
feveral parts of Sweden, and o f which
Mr. AiTeifor Odhelius gives an account
in the third part o f thefe T r a n f
aftions
aélions for the year 17 74; all thefe may
very properly be compared to Mr.
Sauvage’s Elephantiaiis Légitima.
It was believed in the moft early
times, that this difeafe had taken its
rife in Egypt ; and Lucretius pofitively
fays, that it is was firft difcovered on
the Banks of the Nile. In Celius’s time
it was not at all known in Italy; how-
everPliny relates, that it was firft brought
into that country by the army of Pom-
pey, from Egypt and Syria, but did not
remain there long. In the twelfth
century it was brought to Europe the
fecond time by the Crufaders, and is
frequently mentioned in the publications
of the thirteenth, fourteenth,
and fifteenth centuries : it was not
however very violent in the fifteenth
and fixteenth centuries; and in the
fe veil teen th century it feems to have intirely
difappeared in England, France,
and Italy, when all the Lazar-houfes,
that had been built on purpofe to receive
patients infeéled with this diieafe,
became ufelefs.
But how did this dreadful difeafe
come from the South, where the dif-
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