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393noteCleveland, miliary fever or scarlatina in 1760,127,703Clifton,seeBristolClouston, T. S., dysentery in asylum,791Clowes, William, callsvariolameasles,633Cloyne, dysentery in 1741,241Clutterbuck, Henry, excremental effluvia in houses,87note,170Cobbett, William, the potato in Ireland,285Cockburn, William, on “little fever,”68,sickness in navy,103Cockermouth, typhus,114,cholera,846Coffins, at Tewkesbury to prevent plague,36,supersede cerecloths,37,advantages of,38,burials without in a Scots parish,51,and in cholera,814note,818Coke family, typhus in,31,53,smallpox in,435Colden, Cadwallader, throat-distemper in New York,689Coleridge, S. T., merits of inoculation and vaccination as poetic subjects,588noteColic, bilious, distinguished from cholera nostras,771noteCollieston, cholera of 1832,815,833noteComatose fever,5,20,75Connemara, famine and fever of 1821-22,268Constantinople, inoculation at463-467,475Copenhagen, adult smallpox in 1833,612Cork, types and causes of fever 18th cent.,234-6,state of workhouse in 1846,286,fever of 1864,297,cholera of 1832,816,of 1849,839Cormack, John Rose, relapsing fever,204Cotton mills, typhus in,152,effects of on married women,767,adverse to cholera,827Country disease, name of dysentery in Ireland,226-7Coventry, infantile diarrhoea,765andnoteCovey, John, formal inoculation,505Cowan, Robert, Glasgow typhus,191,little smallpox among Irish adults,601Cowpox, matter from used to inoculate with,558,Jenner’s advocacy of,558,its properties used by Adams to illustrate phagedaena,559,accounts of by Jenner, Pearson and Clayton,560,circumstances of its origin in a cow,561,case of in a milkmaid,562,obsolete opinions concerning,562,called by Jenner “smallpox of the cow,”563,attempts to manufacture it out of smallpox,564,seealsoVaccinationCox, Daniel, fever of 1741,83noteCraigie, David, Edinburgh enteric fever,187,cholera at Newburn 1832,804,at Edinburgh,812,history of cholera,860noteCromarty, cholera of 1832,814Cromwell, Oliver, dies of epidemic ague,303Crook, John, sells bark in 1658,320Crookshank, Edgar, describes cowpox,561note,witnesses contamination of milk,735Cross, John Green, Norwich smallpox,578,inoculation in 1819,591Croup, name for diphtheria in Bucks 1793,716,in Glasgow in 1819,738noteCroydon, scarlatina from blood &c.,735,increase of diphtheria,742Cucumbers, theory of in fever of 1624,32Cupar Fife, crystalline smallpox,575Cullen, William, definitions of scarlatina and cynanche,737,rickets congenital,767Currie, James, typhus in Liverpool,141,inoculation,508,511,cold affusions in scarlatina,723Darlington, enteric fever and water-supply,221,cholera nostras 18th cent.,772Darwin, Charles, quantity of seminal particles,608noteDeal, supposed typhoid in 1806,165Dearthsin England,78,125-6,132,159,in Scotland,30,50,82,154,599Deering, Charles, Nottingham smallpox in 1736,522,mild smallpox,845Defoe, Daniel, the Plague and the Fire of London,42Dengue, an analogy for influenza,424Denman, Thomas, diphtheria of infants,714Depuratory fevers,21Dewar, Henry, smallpox of 1817,575Diarrhoea, infantile, called “griping in the guts” 17th cent.,747,Harris on mortality from in London 17th cent.,749,London statistics of in 17th and 18th cent.,750-755,less of in provincial cities,757,first described by Rush,758,modern statistics of,758-762,has declined in London since 18th cent.,763,modern prevalence in provincial towns,765,in infants of workwomen,766,a congenital risk,767-8Dillon, Dr, gaol-fever at Castlebar,292Dimsdale, Baron, re-inoculation,505,opposes infant inoculations,507,general inoculations,509Dingle, escapes famine of 1817,262,cholera of 1849,840Diphtheria, identified in 18th cent.,679,691note,702,737note,called croup in 1793,716,reappears in 1856,736,details of the epidemic of 1858-9,739,incidence of on town and country,741,on London,742,on age and sex,743,favouring conditions of,744Dispensariesin London,16,135Dixon, Joshua, Whitehaven fevers,152,571Dobson, Dr, Liverpool smallpox 1772-4,537Dogsattacked by influenza,354,361,371note,372,398Donoughmore, fever in 1836,277Dorset, epidemic agues in 1780,369Douglas, James, post-mortem on case of fever,55Douglass, William, smallpox and inoculation at Boston 1721,486,danger of inoculated smallpox,607,throat-distemper of New England 1735-6,686-9Dover, Thomas, fever at Bristol 1696,46,agues in Glo’stershire,74,treated for smallpox by Sydenham,446note,his success in smallpox in 1720,449,mildness of measles,641noteDrage, William, epidemic agues of 1658,315,transplantation of agues,474note,incubation of measles,655noteDrogheda, dysentery at siege of, in 1649,227,cholera in 1832,88,in 1849,839Drunkennessin London 18th cent.,84Dublin, Black Assizes of 1776,98,question of enteric fever in 1826,187,typhus in 1682,228,nervous fever in 1734,239,relapsing fever in 1738-9,240,dysentery and fever 1740-41,241-2,relapsing fever in 1746-8,245,putrid fevers in 1754-62,245-6,fevers of 1799-1802,249-50,dysentery and relapsing fever 1825-26,271,intermittent fever in 1827,273,typhus in 1837,277,fever of 1864-5,297,recent enteric fever,299,influenza of 1688,336,of 1693,337,horse-colds,345,354,malignant smallpox,549,mild and severe scarlatina,722,724,cholera of 1832,816,of 1849,839Dundalk, camp sickness,230Dundee, typhus of 1836,192-3,relapsing and typhus in 1842,204,hospital cases of typhus,210,dysentery,789,cholera of 1832,814,of 1849,838,of 1853,855,of 1866,859Dunkirk rant,340Dunse, smallpox in 1733,527,inoculation revived,590Duvillard, M., on saving of life by vaccination,629Dysentery, four degrees of epidemic prevalence,774,severe during plague in London,774,names of in bills of mortality,775,London epidemics of 1669-72,776,in Scotland 1731-37,777,in London in 1762,778,symptoms of in Newcastle in 1758-9,780-1,Akenside’s theory of its pathology,782,epidemic period of 1779-85,783,in a Scots fishing village in 1789,784,epidemic period 1800-2,785,in Glasgow in 1827-29,786,in Edinburgh 1828,787,in Wakefield Asylum,787,occasions of in 1827-29,787,in Scotland in 1836,789,at Taunton workhouse in 1837,790,at Penzance in 1848,790-1,during the cholera of 1849,791,842,relation of to typhus fever,792Earlsoham, malignant fever in a farmhouse,161East Indiamen, fevers in,117Edinburgh, mortality bills of 1740-41,82,523,fevers of 1699,49,worm fever in 1731-32,75,relapsing fever in 1735,76,state of the poor in 1818,174,types of fever 1817-19,174-5,fever cases in general wards of Infirmary,179,relapsing fever of 1827-29,182,little enteric fever,187,199-200,202,typhus of 1836-39,192,relapsing fever of 1843-44,204,Irish fever of 1846-48,208,typhus and enteric of 1864,210,relapsing of 1870,211note,influenza of 1733,346,of 1743,351,of 1758,353,of 1775,361,smallpox in 18th cent.,523,in 1817,575,in 1830-31,600,measles in 1735,642,in 1740-41,643,in 1808,651-2,whooping-cough in 1740-41,670,scarlatina in 1684,681,in 1733,684,Cullen’s experiences of the same,737,in 1804-5,721,in 1832-33,725,dysentery in 1734,777,in 1828,787,the “New-Town Epidemic” of 1828,788,cholera of 1832,807,812,of 1848,835,of 1853-4,855Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, opposes Vaccination Bill,609Ellenborough, second Earl of, brings in Vaccination Bill,606Elliotson, John, agues in 1826-28,378Elyot, Sir Thomas, infantile maladies of 16th cent.,666Ennis, chief months of fever 1846-48,288Enteric Fever, epidemic of 1661 identified as,8note,“little fever” identified as,70,probable cases of in 1804-10,165,in London in 1826,183-6,alleged at North Tawton in 1839,196note,at Anstruther in 1835-39,199,at Edinburgh,199-200,Lombard on proportion of in Britain,201,prevalence of since 1869,211,favouring conditions of,217,highest English death-rates,218,explosions of,220,age-incidence fatality and predisposition to,222-3,Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828,788noteEpidemic Constitutionscopied by Sydenham from Hippocrates,10Evelyn, John, the winter of 1653-4,23,Norwich graveyards,38,bark prescribed for Charles II.,323,last illness of Charles II.,324,“new fever” of 1678,330,attack of ague,331note,treated in smallpox,445Exeter, influenza of 1729,345,of 1775,360,of 1837,386,smallpox of 1837,604,measles in 1824,662,cholera of 1832,829,cholera and water-supply,854Faröe Islands, strangers’ cold,432Farr, William, endorses Watt’s doctrine of displacement,658,cholera and elevation of ground,847,cholera and Newcastle drinking-water,850Febriculaor “little fever” of 1720-30,67-70Feckenheim, camp sickness,108Ferguson, Dr, of Aberdeen, measles in 1808,651-2Ferguson, Robert, favours inoculation in 1825,592Ferriar, John, typhus severe in migrants to towns,101,fevers in Manchester,149,need for fever-hospitals,158,troubles of a young couple,552Ferryden, cholera in 1833,815,834Fever Hospitals, committee on in 1818,178Fire of London, alleged effect on plague,42Fletcher, Andrew, state of Scotland end of 17th cent.,49“Flox and Smallpox,” meaning of,436noteForbes, Sir John, inoculation in Sussex,591Fordyce, John, miliary fever,130Fordyce, Sir William, malignant sore-throat in 1773,707,prevalence of rickets,756Foster, Sir Michael, Old Bailey Black Assizes,93Foster, Sir Walter, on cerebro-spinal fever diagnosed as typhoid,863Fothergill, Anthony, influenza of 1775,359,in horses,361Fothergill, John, fevers of 1751-55,122,collective inquiry on influenza of 1782,360,smallpox of 1751,453,529,objections to the Parish Clerks’ bills,530,638note,epidemic sore-throat 1746-48,696,737Fothergill, Samuel, scarlatina in 1814,723Fowler, Thomas, arsenic in ague,368Freind, John, Sydenham’s varieties of fever,27note,petition to Commons on drink,84,sickness of Peterborough’s expedition 1705,106,adverse to inoculation,478Frewen, Thomas, methods of inoculation,492,Boerhaave’s antidotes,494noteFuller, Thomas, inoculation,489noteGaddesden, John of, uses “mesles” formorbilli,632Gairloch, fevers in 18th cent.,155Galway, plague of 1649,227,fever of 1741,243,fever of 1821-22,269,gaol fever in 1848,291,cholera of 1832,816,of 1849,839Gaol Fever,90-95,Howard’s discoveries of,95-97,Lettsom’s cases,97,infection of in ships,114,in 1783-55,153,Neild’s inquiries,628Gaskell, Mrs, the fever episode in ‘Jane Eyre,’181note,distress of the working class in Manchester in 1839-41,197Gateshead, fever in 1790,142,cholera in 1832,803,cholera in 1853,849Gatti, Angelo, method and results of inoculation,495-7Gaulter, Henry, Manchester cholera of 1832,826Geach, Francis, influenza and astrology,405,dysentery of, 1781,783Geary, W. J., the Limerick poor in 1836,275,age-incidence of typhus,276Geneva, vital statistics of,443note,623George I. sanctions inoculation,468-9George Ham, epidemic pneumonia (?) in 1747,355Germany, names of influenza in 1712,339,apparent extinction of smallpox,612,re-vaccination,612Gibraltar, ship fever at,115,influenza of 1837,388Gilchrist, Ebenezer, nervous fever of 1735,75,inoculations at Dumfries,509Gladstone, rt. hon. W. E., on dearth of 1767,132noteGlasgow, fever statistics from 1795,164,fever of 1816-19,175,fever of 1827-28,181,spotted typhus after 1835,189,193,public health 1831-39,191,fatality of typhus in adults,193,fevers of 1842-44,204,fevers of 1847-48,208,influenza of 1831,379,smallpox in end of 18th cent.,539,557,decline of smallpox 1801-12,569,statistics of vaccination 1801-18,582,revival of smallpox 2nd quarter 19th cent.,597-601,immunity from same of Irish in,602,age-incidence of smallpox compared with same at Paris 1850-51,611,measles in 1808 etc.,652,comparative table with London 1783-1812,655,substitution of measles for smallpox,657,ages of fatal measles,661,


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