Chapter 53

Aberdeen, famine of 1622,30,relapsing fever of 1818,175,typhus of 1838-40,189,192,relapsing of 1843,204,ratio of enteric in 1864,210,influenza of 1831,379note,smallpox in 1610,434,measles of 1808,651-2,putrid sore-throat in 1790,718,dysentery near,784,cholera in 1832,815Aberystruth, cholera in 1849,845Ackworth bill of mortality,528noteAcland, Sir H. W., cholera at Oxford in 1854,851noteAdams, Joseph, cowpox,559,liberty for inoculators,609Adynamicfever,182Ague, etymology of,225,301,name of typhus in Ireland,301Agues, epidemic, joined with influenzas,300,summary of in 16th and 17th cent.,306-14,of 1678-80,329,in Scotland after the union,341,of 1727-29,341,of 1780-85,366,table of, at Kelso Dispensary,370,of 1826-28,378,of 1827 in Ireland,273,in 1846-47,391,in a Somerset village,393,no record of, during the influenzas of 1890-94,397Aikin, John, Warrington smallpox,553Akenside, Mark, dysentery in London 1762,778,theory of dysentery and rheumatic fever,782Alderson, John, contagion of typhus,153Alison, William P., no enteric cases in 1827,187Althaus, Julius, nervous sequelae of influenza,397noteAmyand, sergeant-surgeon, inoculations by,469-70Andrew, John, formal inoculation,497Anstruther, enteric fever 1835-39,199Arbuthnot, John, malignant fever in London,67,pestilent air of cities,84,influenza of 1733,347,theory of influenza,402-5Armagh, smallpox burials at in 1818,572,cholera in a hamlet near,818Arnot, Hugh, inoculation a complete remedy,516Arrott, James, fever at Dundee,192-3Astruc, Jean, history of whooping-cough,666Asylums, cholera in,809,831,dysentery in,787,791Aubrey, T., miasmata of Guinea Coast the cause of dengue,424Aylesbury, gaol typhus,153Aynho, statistics of smallpox in 1723,520Ayr, dysentery,787,cholera of 1832,814Ayrshire, cholera at iron-works,837Baillou, G. de, first to mention whooping-cough,666Baker, Sir George, history of cinchona bark,320note,merits of Talbor,322,epidemic agues of 1780-85,366-7,failure of bark in ditto,368,merits of Jurin,479,Sutton’s inoculation,498,cowpox,558,dysentery of 1762,778Ballard, Edward, occupation of mothers as a cause of infantile diarrhoea,766note,“healthy” infants have due share of same,768,slight fatality of diarrhoea in adults,769Banff, inoculation not general,510Bangor, enteric fever in 1882,220Barbone, Nicholas, builder in London after the Fire,86Barcelona, sickness at among the troops in 1705,106Bard, Samuel, throat-disease in New York,690Bark, cinchona, use and abuse of in fevers,318-25,failure of in epidemic agues,368Barker, John, of Sarum, epidemic typhus of 1741,79,80,83;Sydenham as phlebotomist,450Barker, John, of Coleshill, type of fever in 1794,157,agues in 1781,367,influenzas of 1788 and fol. years,370,smallpox a bugbear,517Bartholin, Thomas, transplantation of disease,474Bateman, Thomas, decline of fever 1804-16,163,epidemic fever of 1816-19,168,cause of differences of type,169,ratio of relapsing cases,172,fatal smallpox in Shoe Lane,547,568,measles of 1807,650,dysentery rare,785Bath, rumour of plague &c. in 1675,34,458,influenza of 1782,364note,of 1788,372,of 1803,375,smallpox of 1837,604,age-incidence of same,624Beddoes, Thomas, influenza of 1803,375Belfast, mortality in military hospital 1689-90,234,fatality of fever and dysentery 1846,294,recent enteric fever,299,cholera in 1832,818,in 1849,839,in 1853-4,856Bent, Thomas, crystalline smallpox at Derby in 1818,577Berkeley, Bishop, queries on Irish economics,239,dysentery and fever at Cloyne, &c. 1740-41,241-2,tar water in smallpox,546Berkeley, relapsing fever in 1794-5,156Berkhamstead, general inoculation at,509Bernoulli, saving of life by inoculation,629Bilge-watera cause of ship-fever,105,106noteBideford, incidence of influenza in 1803,376,cholera in 1854,851noteBilston, cholera in 1832,824,in 1849,845Birmingham, scarlatina in 1778,710Black, William, safety of inoculation,608Black Assizesat Taunton in 1730,92,alleged at Launceston in 1742,93,at the Old Bailey in 1750,93,at Dublin in 1776,98“Black Death,” Irish name of cerebro-spinal fever,863Black Fever, Irish name of relapsing fever,289Blackmore, Sir Richard, hysteric or little fever,68,against inoculation,479Blagden, Charles, materies of influenza,406Blakiston, Peyton, influenza of 1837,387Blandford, effects of inoculation on smallpox at,513Bloodlettingin fevers, Sydenham’s practice in,3,attack on in 1741,83,in ship-fevers,104,from the jugular by Freind,107,of doubtful use in low fever,122,revival of in 1817,170,172,in relapsing fever,174,175note,176,unsuitable in the fevers of 1830-40,189,unsuitable in the relapsing fever of 1842,203,in case of Charles II.,325,in influenza of 1743,350,failure of in influenza of 1833,381,Whitmore opposed to in influenza of 1658,381note,history of in smallpox,445-50,in whooping-cough,667,668,injurious in epidemic angina,701,in the cholera of 1832,833Boate, Gerard, fluxes and fevers of Ireland,226Boerhaave, Hermann, antidotes to smallpox,494Bolton, dysentery in 1832,789Boringdon, Lord, Vaccination Bills in 1813 and 1814,609Borlase, Edmund, dysentery of Ireland,228Boston, U. S., inoculation,483,485,smallpox epidemic of 1721,485,tar-water in smallpox,546,adult cases in the smallpox of 1721 and 1752,626,throat-distemper of 1735-6,688Boston, Eng., agues in 1780,367,368,statistics of smallpox 18th cent.,525,540,557Boufflers, Madame de, smallpox after inoculation,495,500Bowel-hive, meaning of,758noteBoyle, Robert, influenza not due to the weather,399,hypothesis of subterraneous miasmata,400-2,408,agues rare in Scotland,341Boylston, Zabdiel, inoculations at Boston,483,485Brest, malignant typhus in 1757,113Bridgenorth, epidemic agues in 1784,368Bright, Richard, enteric fever in London in 1825-6,186Bristol, fever in 169646,types of the fever of 1817-19,173,fever-cases in general wards,179,type of fever in 1834,201,cholera of 1832,828,of 1849,846noteBromfeild, William, against Sutton’s inoculations,499,abandons inoculation,515Bromley, malignant sore-throat in 1746,696Brown, Andrew, fevers of the seven ill years in Scotland,48Browne, Sir Thomas, urn-burial and Norwich churchyards,38Brownrigg, William, nature of Leyden fever of 1669,19note,contagion of fever in ships of war,114Buchanan, Andrew, state of the poor in Glasgow 1830,598,Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828,788noteBuchanan, Sir G., desires definition of “influenza proper,”397noteBuckie, cholera of 1832,815Budd, William, epidemic fever of 1839 at North Tawton,196Burialin relation to plague,36-39Burke, Edmund, dearth of 1795,158noteBurns, Robert, distress and fever of 1783,154noteBury St Edmunds, smallpox in 1824,593Butter, William, infantile remittent fever,7Buying the smallpox, in Wales,471,in Africa,473,in Poland,473Caithness, inoculation in,510,542Calabria, earthquakes and disease,413,419Cambridge, plague of 1666,34note,gaol fever,96,false rumour of smallpox,458,inoculations near,592Cameron, James, scarlatina from milk,734noteCampbell, David, typhus in cotton-mills,151,few children die of typhus,152Canterbury, smallpox in 1824,581,inoculations,584Cardiff, diphtheria,742,cholera of 1849,845,847Carleton, William, tales of Irish famines,254noteCarlisle, typhus in 1781,147,smallpox of infants,538,rate of fatality,555,measles,646,scarlatina,712,723,cholera of 1832,829Carnbroe, winter cholera in a mining township,837Carrick, Dr, fevers of Bristol,201Carter, H. W., smallpox and inoculation at Canterbury 1824,581,584Castlebar, gaol-fever in 1847,292Cats, throat-distemper of in 1798,719Ceely, Robert, cowpox near Aylesbury,561andnoteCellar dwellingsmake typhus in Liverpool,141,in Manchester,149,in Whitehaven,151Cerebro-spinal fever, question of diagnosis of in Irish epidemic of 1771,247,at Cork and Dublin in 1864,297,two recent periods of,863,statistics of valueless,863,instance of its being overlooked after autopsy and inquest,863Chalmers, Thomas, state of Glasgow in 1819,599Chambers, W. F., enteric fever in London 1826,185Chandler, John, throat-distemper of 1739,692Charles II., patronizes Talbor,319,322,his ague treated by bark,323,his fatal illness,324,visits his mistress after smallpox,454Charleston, inoculation at in 1738,486,490,fatal measles,645Chelmsford, Sutton’s trial at,499,608Cheshire, epidemic agues,313,368Chester, public health in plague-times and after,40-42,typhus among military prisoners in 1716,60,96,typhus endemic in suburbs,143,smallpox in 1634,436,inoculation,508,511,516,smallpox in 1774,537,544note,compared with Warrington,551-555,cholera in 1866,857Cheyne, George, on fevers in 1701,52Chichester, mild smallpox in 17th cent.,455,smallpox in 1821,581,inoculation and vaccination in 1821-22,591Children, nervous fever of in 1661,5-8,epidemics among after the Great Plague,18,typhus in,152,276,571-2,smallpox of in 17th century,434,436,alleged mildness of same,441-2Cholera, Asiatic, Anglo-Indian writings on before 1831,793,preparations for,794,diagnosis of from cholera nostras in 1831,795-6,first case of in England,797,the Sunderland epidemic,797-802,extension to the Tyne,802-5,to Scotland,805,the Glasgow epidemic in 1832,808,the Edinburgh epidemic,812,table of the epidemic in Scotland,813,among the fishing population,814,the 1832 epidemic in Ireland,816,table of same,819,the outbreak in London,820,table of 1832 epidemic in England,821,exempted towns,823,Bilston,824,in Liverpool shipping,826,at Manchester,826,exemption of cotton mills,827,microbic hypothesis in 1832,827note,chief season of,830,season of in Paris,831note,localities of,830,susceptible persons,831,question of contagion,831,means of transmission,832,sanitary lessons,833,revivals of in 1833-34 and 1837,834Second epidemic 1848-9: Outbreak at Edinburgh,835,at Springburn, Glasgow,836,great mortality at Glasgow in mid winter,837,in mining townships,837,summer epidemic in Dundee,838,in Ireland,839,great outbreak delayed in London till July 1849,841,chief London localities of,841,many deaths from collapse at outset,842,mixed with much cholera nostras,842,prevalence in institutions,841,843,table for England,843,in Merthyr Tydvil,845,in Hull,845,in Airedale,846,exempted places,846,influence of locality,847,law of altitude,847,carried in surface water,848Third epidemic 1853-4: Outbreak at Newcastle and Gateshead,849,Commissioners’ report on,849,suspected water-supply,850,the epidemic partial in England in 1854,851,table of same and of 1866 epidemic,852,supposed connexion with water in South London,853,and in Soho,854,the epidemic in Scotland,855,in Ireland,856Fourth epidemic: Outbreak at Southampton in 1865,856,Liverpool &c. in 1866,857,chiefly in the East End of London,857,table of four epidemics in the parishes of London,858,main drainage incomplete at East End in 1866,859,slight Scotch epidemic in 1866,859,no subsequent epidemic,859In India before 1817,860,causes of endemicity since 1817,861Cholera infantum,seeDiarrhoea.Cholera nostras, fatal to adults chiefly in old age,769,historical references to,770,distinction of from bilious colic,771note,Willis’s symptoms of,772,in and near Leeds in 1825,773,diagnosis from Asiatic in 1831,795-6Christison, Sir Robert, relapsing fever of 1819,174,177,fever cases in general wards,179,relapsing fever of 1827-29,182,heat of 1826,185,rarity of enteric fever in Edinburgh,187,relapsing fever of 1842,203,agues at Kelso dispensary 18th cent.,370,ague in 1827,378,dysentery in and near Edinburgh,787,791Christleton, village smallpox,556Churchill, Fleetwood, influenza in Dublin 1847,389Circassia, procuring of smallpox in,472,Voltaire’s legend of,473noteClanny, W. R., Sunderland cholera,798,801noteClark, John, ship fever,117,Newcastle typhus,142,influenza of 1782,364,agues,369,inoculation of infants,507,scarlet fever of 1778,713,dysentery,784Clarke, James, typhus at Nottingham in 1807,165,ague in 1808,378note,gangrene in measles,706Clayton, Mr, describes cowpox in the cow,560Cleghorn, George, influenza in Minorca,352,mild and severe smallpox,547Clemow, F., origin of influenza in 1889,


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