summary of 18th cent. history,556,London deaths by from 1801 to 1837,568,Glasgow deaths 1801-1812,569,epidemic of 1817-19,571,the crystalline form of,574-7,at Norwich in 1819,578,in Christ’s Hospital,581,the epidemic of 1825-26,593,so-called “secondary,”597,a generation of in Glasgow,597,in Limerick 1830-40,601,the epidemic of 1837-40,604,legislation for in 1840,606,ages of at Paris and Glasgow compared,611,more adults attacked abroad than in Britain,612,London deaths by from 1837 to 1893,613,table for England,614,comparison of the epidemics of 1837-40 and 1871-72,615,has almost ceased in rural parts,616,London’s recent share of,617,recent rates of fatality from,618,in Ireland since 1864,620,in Scotland since 1855,622,varying ratios of children and adults attacked at various periods of history,622-7,reason why fewer children attacked in epidemic of 1871-72,627,Watt’s doctrine of substitution applied to,629Smollett, Tobias, sick bay of the ‘Cumberland,’107noteSnow, John, water-borne cholera,852,854Southampton, a 17th cent, autopsy at,316Spalding, diphtheria,739,740Spelman, Sir Henry, on burials,37Spotted feverin 17th and 18th cent.,13,universal in 1623,31,cases in Archbishop’s family,64,Arbuthnot on,67,return of after 1831,188,277Stark, James, sex-fatality in whooping-cough,672noteStewart, Frances, her beauty after smallpox,453Stokes, William, Dublin enteric fever in 1826,187noteStory, Rev. George, camp sickness at Dundalk,230-2Stow, John, irregular building of London out-parishes,85-6Strabane, a congested district in 1817,253,fever and dysentery in,259-60,263,smallpox in 1817,573Stranraer, smallpox in 1829,600Streater, Aaron, ague curer,316Streeten, R. J. N., influenza of 1837,387noteStrother, Edward, London fevers of 1727-29,68-70Stroud, tests of cowpox at,565Sturges, Octavius, whooping-cough mimetic,677Sudell, Nicholas, ague curer,317Sunderland, recent typhus in,214,217,cholera begins at, in 1831,796Surfeit, meaning of,775Sutherland, John, reports on cholera of 1848-49,837-8,840Sutton, Daniel, his method of inoculation,498Sweat, the, late reference to by Shakespeare,311noteSweden, early statistics of whooping-cough,670Swift, Jonathan, urgent for quarantine,58note,the stinks in his London lodging,87,state of Ireland in 1729,238,on an ague curer,325Sydenham, Thomas, on succession of epidemic types,4,631,his epidemic constitutions,9,on intermittents,11,302,314,on comatose fever,20,on depuratory fever,21,on the “new fever” of 1685-6,22,24,27,his theory of subterranean miasmata,29,80,a Scotch disciple of,48,on marsh agues,302,his position in the bark controversy,320,321-2,on influenza of 1675,327,of 1679,329,on epidemic agues of 1678-80,331,his view of influenza,399,his practice in smallpox,445,smallpox most fatal to the rich,450,on measles in 1670 and 1674,655,on pertussis,677,on scarlatina,680,on diarrhoea in infants,749,on cholera nostras,770,on dysentery,776Symonds, John Addington, Bristol cholera in 1832,828Tain, cholera in 1832,814Talbor, Sir Richard, ague curer,318,his use of bark,319,322Tar-water, in fever,242,in smallpox,546Taunton, dysentery in 1837,790Tavistock, cholera in 1849,847Tawton, North, epidemic fever of 1839,196Tees valley, enteric fever in,221Tewkesbury, burial in coffins,36Thackrah, Charles T., Leeds cholera nostras in 1825,773Theydon Bois, cholera in 1865,857Thompson, Theophilus, his ‘Annals of Influenza,’360noteThomson, John, smallpox of 1817-19,575-6Thoresby, Ralph, on influenza of 1675,327,loses his children by smallpox,458Thorne, Richard Thorne, diphtheria from cow’s milk,745noteThorp, Dr, Leeds fevers in 1802,160Throat distemper,seeScarlatinaTimoni, Emanuel, first writer on inoculation,463,visited by La Motraye,472note,his inoculated daughter dies of smallpox,488Tiverton, fever of 1741,80Torbay, influenza on board ships in,426Torthorwald, 18th cent. fevers,154,vital statistics,542Torrington, strange experience of, in the influenza of 1782,364Toynbee, Arnold, the industrial revolution,145Tralee, typhus,259,cholera in 1849,840Trallianus, Alexander, dysenteria rheumatica,782Tranent, cholera in 1832,806Transplantationof disease,474Tristan d’Acunha, strangers’ colds,431Tronchin, Theodore, inoculation by blister,493Trotter, Thomas, ship fever,117,Northumberland fevers 18th cent.,156note,smallpox in the navy,544Turner, John, influenza of 1712,340Tullamore, panic at, from fever of 1817,262Tynemouth, cholera in 1849,846,in 1853,850,in 1854,851Type, change of, in continued fever,2,189,203,277,in scarlatina,724,730Typhoid feverseeEntericTyphus,seealsoSimple Continued,Nervous,Putrid,Miliary,Pestilential,War,Gaol,ShipandWorkhousefevers.Perennial in London in 17th and 18th cent.,13,67,epidemic of 1685-6 identified as,27,the type of universal fever in 1623-4,31,corresponds to the malignant fever of 1694,44,among children at Bristol in 1696,47,in Scotland at end of 17th cent.,48,49,at Paris in 1700,53,a case in London in 1709,53,in Chester Castle in 1716,60,orsynochusat York in 1718,63,in 1728,73,at Plymouth in 1735,77,the type in the English epidemic of 1741-42,83,and in the Irish,243,circumstances of severe type of,98-102,290,relation of to dysentery,108,231,792,in Lettsom’s dispensary practice,136,identified by Hunter in London with gaol or hospital fever,138,described by Sims in 1786,138,by Willan in 1799,139,by Currie at Liverpool,141,at Newcastle,142,156note,at Chester,143,at Leeds,146,160,at Carlisle,147,at Manchester,149,157,at Lancaster,151,at Whitehaven,152,in England generally 1782-85,153,in Scotland,154,161,reference to by Robert Burns,154note,epidemic of 1799-1802,160,in Ireland,248,epidemic of in fiction in 1811,162note,decline of in second period of French war,163,167,epidemic of 1817-19, in England,168,rare in the Scotch epidemic of same years,175,in the Irish epidemic,258,in Galway in 1822,270,the common type of continued fever from 1831 to 1848,188-198,the epidemic of 1847 in England,205,in Scotland,208,839note,in Ireland,289-92,of the Lancashire cotton famine,209,prevalence of relative to enteric,211,recent decrease of,214,606,recent highest death-rates,214,217,mistaken for typhoid,214,table of for Scotland,216,for Ireland,296Tyrone, over-population in,254,effects of the famine of 1817-19,264Ulverston, smallpox in 1816,573Uxbridge, measles in 1801,649Vaccinal Syphilis, real nature of,562noteVaccination, rival of inoculation,557,its pathological nature,559-562,tests of its efficacy,564,approved by the State,567,extent of its practice to 1825,582-6,Gregory on the effect of upon the London smallpox of, 1825595,reasons for treating it as irrelevant to the epidemiology of smallpox,596,prejudices of working class against,606-7,made compulsory in 1853 on the precedent of 1840,610,of adults, or re-vaccination, common on the Continent sooner than in Britain,611-3seealsoCowpoxVagrancyin Irish famines,244,261,267“Variolae Vaccinae,” figurative name of cowpox,563Ventilationof gaols,94,of ships,118.SeealsoWindow-tax.Verdier, Jean, vaccination incorrect in principle,587Vibriosin cholera,827noteVirchow, Rudolph, dysentery and typhus,108note,season of epidemic typhoid in Berlin,217Voltaire, M. de, his mythical account of inoculation in Circassia,473noteWagstaffe, William, objects to inoculation,478,607Wakefield, dysentery in asylum,787Wakley, James, carries Bill against inoculation,607Walker, George A., London graveyards,87Walker, John, “vaccinates” with smallpox,590Walker, Patrick, sickness in the seven ill years,50,epidemic agues in Scotland,341Wall, John, fever of 1741,83,epidemic sore-throat of 1748,701-2,relation of same to murrain,736noteWall, Martin, Oxford typhus in 1785,153Walpole, Horace, on middle-class comfort,60,suffers from nervous fever,71note,influenza of 1743,350,horse-cold of 1760,355,deaths by sore-throat in 1760,703War typhusat Chester in 1716,60,at Feckenheim in 1743,108,in 1746,109,at Paderborn in 1761,110,from Peninsular War,166Ward, T. Ogier, Wolverhampton cholera,825Ware, inoculation after an epidemic,511Warren, Dr, of Boston, two forms of influenza in successive seasons,398noteWarren, H., scarlatina anginosa in Barbados 1736,684Warrington, fevers at in 1773,148,smallpox in 1773,537,553,comparison of with Chester as regards infant mortality,551-5,cholera of 1832,829noteWaterfrom reservoirs, a source of enteric fever,220note,221, andnote,222note,a source of cholera,832,848,at Newcastle in 1853,550,in London,853,859Waterfrom wells, a source of enteric fever,219note,source of dysentery,791,source of cholera,848,the Broad St pump,854,Theydon Bois,857Waterin the subsoil, relation to enteric fever,217,221,Arbuthnot on its relation to influenza,403-4,408,relation to scarlatina years or season,731,to diphtheria at Maidstone,744,to cholera at Bilston,824,830,to cholera in east of London 1866,859,to cholera in the endemic area of Bengal,861Waterford, fever hospital founded in 1799,249,statistics of fever 1817-19,266Watson, Sir Thomas, epidemic fever of 1837-39 all typhus,194,“threw the agy off his stomach,”318note,cause of intestinal irritation in scarlatina,697note,rarity of dysentery,790Watson, Sir William, peeling of skin after influenza,351,inoculation trials at the Foundling,500,503,smallpox in the Foundling,514,550,putrid measles in same,705,dysentery in 1762,779Watt, Robert, Glasgow vital statistics,539,569,654,vaccination no direct effect on measles fatality,583,decline of smallpox,597,its place taken by measles,629,653-8,statistics of whooping-cough,675,meaning of “bowel-hive,”758noteWatts, Giles, mildness of Sutton’s inoculation,499Webster, Noah, his theory of influenza,405-7,influenza of 1781 in America,410,influenza at sea,428,fatality of measles,645,insanitary state of American towns,685,angina of cats in Philadelphia &c.,719noteWest, Charles, nature of infantile remittent fever,5,exanthematic typhus,189,no enteric cases in 1837-8,194West Ham, diphtheria,742Wharekauri, strangers’ cold,432Whitaker, Tobias, smallpox more fatal after the Restoration,439,blooding in smallpox,447,prevention of pock-pits,456White, J., fevers in the navy 17th cent.,104White, William, public health of York improves,63Whitehaven, gaol and ship fever,114,fevers,152,156,few children die of them,571,fatality of smallpox,538,547,vaccination supersedes inoculation,582,586,cholera in 1832,829Whitmore, H., influenzas and agues of 1658-9,313,362,opposes blooding in influenza,381noteWhooping-coughcalled “the kink” in medieval book,666,little regarded till 18th cent.,668,apparent increase of London deaths,669,nosologically recognized in Sweden,670,various British statistics 18th cent.,670,recent statistics,671,probable cause of higher fatality in females,672,now heads list of its class,673,as a sequel of other diseases,674,its pathology,676,partly contagious by mimicry,677Whytt, Robert, influenza of 1758,353,smallpox fatal in 1758,547Wick, cholera of 1832,815Wilde, Sir W. R., census of Ireland after the famine,292Willan, Robert, London typhus in 1796-99,139,agues,373,measles,648,18th cent. throat distempers all scarlatinal,679,737,the Foundling epidemic of 1763,705,scarlatina of 1786,713,of 1796-1801,719,uncertainty of scarlatinal contagion,733,dysentery in 1800,785Williams, Robert, on 17th cent. agues and dysenteries in London,304note,electrical theory of influenza,406noteWillis, Thomas, epidemic fever of 1661,4-7,cases and postmortem of,6,scale of malignity in fevers,16,epidemic agues of 1657-58,314,refers to bark in 1660,320,smallpox at Oxford in 1649 and 1654,437,less danger from smallpox in childhood,441,opinion on Duke of York’s children,451,whooping-cough left to nurses,667,convulsions,749,cholera nostras of 1670,772,symptoms of dysentery,776Wilson, Andrew, bilious colic,771note,Newcastle dysentery,780Window-tax, effects of on health,88,history of,88Wintringham, Clifton, typhus in Yorkshire in 1718,63,nervous fevers,72,73,agues,341,influenza of 1729,345,