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Excerpt from Elephantiasis Arabum of the Right Inferior Extremity: Successfully Treated by Ligature of the Femoral Artery
If the disease, after the acute stage, do not recede, the in tumescence remains, although the other symptoms may sub side for a time. Exacerbations recur at intervals varying in duration, and the enlargement of the tissues increases, until the structures invaded remain, as it were, stationary in their abnormal condition, imparting to the hand, when examined, a harsh, dense, pachydermatous sensation, and presenting to the eye, in the most characteristic form of the disease, a rough, scaly, dusky-looking mass of deformity, well represented in the accompanying illustration.
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