Note 487 — Chapter VI · SWEATING SICKNESSES.

Cæl. Aurel. c. 33. p. 153. A perfectly similar observation is made in the present day, on the increasing frequency of liver complaints in England. Parents who have been a long time in the East Indies, entail the predisposition to these diseases, which are altogether foreign to the temperate zones, on their posterity, among whom there is no need of a tropical heat, but merely common causes acting in their own country, to call forth various liver complaints. See Bell (George Hamilton).