INDEX.
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, [379] note,
smallpox in 1610, [434],
measles of 1808, [651-2],
putrid sore-throat in 1790, [718],
dysentery near, [784],
cholera in 1832, [815]
Aberystruth, cholera in 1849, [845]
Ackworth bill of mortality, [528] note
Acland, Sir H. W., cholera at Oxford in 1854, [851] note
Adams, Joseph, cowpox, [559],
liberty for inoculators, [609]
Adynamic fever, [182]
Ague, etymology of, [225], [301],
name of typhus in Ireland, [301]
Agues, 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, [397]
Aikin, John, Warrington smallpox, [553]
Akenside, Mark, dysentery in London 1762, [778],
theory of dysentery and rheumatic fever, [782]
Alderson, John, contagion of typhus, [153]
Alison, William P., no enteric cases in 1827, [187]
Althaus, Julius, nervous sequelae of influenza, [397] note
Amyand, sergeant-surgeon, inoculations by, [469-70]
Andrew, John, formal inoculation, [497]
Anstruther, enteric fever 1835-39, [199]
Arbuthnot, John, malignant fever in London, [67],
pestilent air of cities, [84],
influenza of 1733, [347],
theory of influenza, [402-5]
Armagh, smallpox burials at in 1818, [572],
cholera in a hamlet near, [818]
Arnot, Hugh, inoculation a complete remedy, [516]
Arrott, James, fever at Dundee, [192-3]
Astruc, Jean, history of whooping-cough, [666]
Asylums, cholera in, [809], [831],
dysentery in, [787], [791]
Aubrey, T., miasmata of Guinea Coast the cause of dengue, [424]
Aylesbury, gaol typhus, [153]
Aynho, statistics of smallpox in 1723, [520]
Ayr, dysentery, [787],
cholera of 1832, [814]
Ayrshire, cholera at iron-works, [837]
Baillou, G. de, first to mention whooping-cough, [666]
Baker, Sir George, history of cinchona bark, [320] note,
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, [778]
Ballard, Edward, occupation of mothers as a cause of infantile diarrhoea, [766] note,
“healthy” infants have due share of same, [768],
slight fatality of diarrhoea in adults, [769]
Banff, inoculation not general, [510]
Bangor, enteric fever in 1882, [220]
Barbone, Nicholas, builder in London after the Fire, [86]
Barcelona, sickness at among the troops in 1705, [106]
Bard, Samuel, throat-disease in New York, [690]
Bark, cinchona, use and abuse of in fevers, [318-25],
failure of in epidemic agues, [368]
Barker, John, of Sarum, epidemic typhus of 1741, [79], [80], [83];
Sydenham as phlebotomist, [450]
Barker, John, of Coleshill, type of fever in 1794, [157],
agues in 1781, [367],
influenzas of 1788 and fol. years, [370],
smallpox a bugbear, [517]
Bartholin, Thomas, transplantation of disease, [474]
Bateman, 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, [785]
Bath, rumour of plague &c. in 1675, [34], [458],
influenza of 1782, [364] note,
of 1788, [372],
of 1803, [375],
smallpox of 1837, [604],
age-incidence of same, [624]
Beddoes, Thomas, influenza of 1803, [375]
Belfast, 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, [856]
Bent, Thomas, crystalline smallpox at Derby in 1818, [577]
Berkeley, Bishop, queries on Irish economics, [239],
dysentery and fever at Cloyne, &c. 1740-41, [241-2],
tar water in smallpox, [546]
Berkeley, relapsing fever in 1794-5, [156]
Berkhamstead, general inoculation at, [509]
Bernoulli, saving of life by inoculation, [629]
Bilge-water a cause of ship-fever, [105], [106] note
Bideford, incidence of influenza in 1803, [376],
cholera in 1854, [851] note
Bilston, cholera in 1832, [824],
in 1849, [845]
Birmingham, scarlatina in 1778, [710]
Black, William, safety of inoculation, [608]
Black Assizes at 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, [863]
Black Fever, Irish name of relapsing fever, [289]
Blackmore, Sir Richard, hysteric or little fever, [68],
against inoculation, [479]
Blagden, Charles, materies of influenza, [406]
Blakiston, Peyton, influenza of 1837, [387]
Blandford, effects of inoculation on smallpox at, [513]
Bloodletting in 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], [175] note, [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, [381] note,
history of in smallpox, [445-50],
in whooping-cough, [667], [668],
injurious in epidemic angina, [701],
in the cholera of 1832, [833]
Boate, Gerard, fluxes and fevers of Ireland, [226]
Boerhaave, Hermann, antidotes to smallpox, [494]
Bolton, dysentery in 1832, [789]
Boringdon, Lord, Vaccination Bills in 1813 and 1814, [609]
Borlase, Edmund, dysentery of Ireland, [228]
Boston, 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, [688]
Boston, Eng., agues in 1780, [367], [368],
statistics of smallpox 18th cent., [525], [540], [557]
Boufflers, Madame de, smallpox after inoculation, [495], [500]
Bowel-hive, meaning of, [758] note
Boyle, Robert, influenza not due to the weather, [399],
hypothesis of subterraneous miasmata, [400-2], [408],
agues rare in Scotland, [341]
Boylston, Zabdiel, inoculations at Boston, [483], [485]
Brest, malignant typhus in 1757, [113]
Bridgenorth, epidemic agues in 1784, [368]
Bright, Richard, enteric fever in London in 1825-6, [186]
Bristol, fever in 1696 [46],
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, [846] note
Bromfeild, William, against Sutton’s inoculations, [499],
abandons inoculation, [515]
Bromley, malignant sore-throat in 1746, [696]
Brown, Andrew, fevers of the seven ill years in Scotland, [48]
Browne, Sir Thomas, urn-burial and Norwich churchyards, [38]
Brownrigg, William, nature of Leyden fever of 1669, [19] note,
contagion of fever in ships of war, [114]
Buchanan, Andrew, state of the poor in Glasgow 1830, [598],
Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828, [788] note
Buchanan, Sir G., desires definition of “influenza proper,” [397] note
Buckie, cholera of 1832, [815]
Budd, William, epidemic fever of 1839 at North Tawton, [196]
Burial in relation to plague, [36-39]
Burke, Edmund, dearth of 1795, [158] note
Burns, Robert, distress and fever of 1783, [154] note
Bury St Edmunds, smallpox in 1824, [593]
Butter, William, infantile remittent fever, [7]
Buying the smallpox, in Wales, [471],
in Africa, [473],
in Poland, [473]
Caithness, inoculation in, [510], [542]
Calabria, earthquakes and disease, [413], [419]
Cambridge, plague of 1666, [34] note,
gaol fever, [96],
false rumour of smallpox, [458],
inoculations near, [592]
Cameron, James, scarlatina from milk, [734] note
Campbell, David, typhus in cotton-mills, [151],
few children die of typhus, [152]
Canterbury, smallpox in 1824, [581],
inoculations, [584]
Cardiff, diphtheria, [742],
cholera of 1849, [845], [847]
Carleton, William, tales of Irish famines, [254] note
Carlisle, typhus in 1781, [147],
smallpox of infants, [538],
rate of fatality, [555],
measles, [646],
scarlatina, [712], [723],
cholera of 1832, [829]
Carnbroe, winter cholera in a mining township, [837]
Carrick, Dr, fevers of Bristol, [201]
Carter, H. W., smallpox and inoculation at Canterbury 1824, [581], [584]
Castlebar, gaol-fever in 1847, [292]
Cats, throat-distemper of in 1798, [719]
Ceely, Robert, cowpox near Aylesbury, [561] and note
Cellar dwellings make typhus in Liverpool, [141],
in Manchester, [149],
in Whitehaven, [151]
Cerebro-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, [863]
Chalmers, Thomas, state of Glasgow in 1819, [599]
Chambers, W. F., enteric fever in London 1826, [185]
Chandler, John, throat-distemper of 1739, [692]
Charles II., patronizes Talbor, [319], [322],
his ague treated by bark, [323],
his fatal illness, [324],
visits his mistress after smallpox, [454]
Charleston, inoculation at in 1738, [486], [490],
fatal measles, [645]
Chelmsford, Sutton’s trial at, [499], [608]
Cheshire, epidemic agues, [313], [368]
Chester, 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], [544] note,
compared with Warrington, [551-555],
cholera in 1866, [857]
Cheyne, George, on fevers in 1701, [52]
Chichester, mild smallpox in 17th cent., [455],
smallpox in 1821, [581],
inoculation and vaccination in 1821-22, [591]
Children, 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, [441-2]
Cholera, 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, [827] note,
chief season of, [830],
season of in Paris, [831] note,
localities of, [830],
susceptible persons, [831],
question of contagion, [831],
means of transmission, [832],
sanitary lessons, [833],
revivals of in 1833-34 and 1837, [834]
Second 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, [848]
Third 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, [856]
Fourth 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, [859]
In India before 1817, [860],
causes of endemicity since 1817, [861]
Cholera infantum, see [Diarrhoea].
Cholera nostras, fatal to adults chiefly in old age, [769],
historical references to, [770],
distinction of from bilious colic, [771] note,
Willis’s symptoms of, [772],
in and near Leeds in 1825, [773],
diagnosis from Asiatic in 1831, [795-6]
Christison, 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], [791]
Christleton, village smallpox, [556]
Churchill, Fleetwood, influenza in Dublin 1847, [389]
Circassia, procuring of smallpox in, [472],
Voltaire’s legend of, [473] note
Clanny, W. R., Sunderland cholera, [798], [801] note
Clark, John, ship fever, [117],
Newcastle typhus, [142],
influenza of 1782, [364],
agues, [369],
inoculation of infants, [507],
scarlet fever of 1778, [713],
dysentery, [784]
Clarke, James, typhus at Nottingham in 1807, [165],
ague in 1808, [378] note,
gangrene in measles, [706]
Clayton, Mr, describes cowpox in the cow, [560]
Cleghorn, George, influenza in Minorca, [352],
mild and severe smallpox, [547]
Clemow, F., origin of influenza in 1889,
[393] note
Cleveland, miliary fever or scarlatina in 1760, [127], [703]
Clifton, see [Bristol]
Clouston, T. S., dysentery in asylum, [791]
Clowes, William, calls variola measles, [633]
Cloyne, dysentery in 1741, [241]
Clutterbuck, Henry, excremental effluvia in houses, [87] note, [170]
Cobbett, William, the potato in Ireland, [285]
Cockburn, William, on “little fever,” [68],
sickness in navy, [103]
Cockermouth, typhus, [114],
cholera, [846]
Coffins, at Tewkesbury to prevent plague, [36],
supersede cerecloths, [37],
advantages of, [38],
burials without in a Scots parish, [51],
and in cholera, [814] note, [818]
Coke family, typhus in, [31], [53],
smallpox in, [435]
Colden, Cadwallader, throat-distemper in New York, [689]
Coleridge, S. T., merits of inoculation and vaccination as poetic subjects, [588] note
Colic, bilious, distinguished from cholera nostras, [771] note
Collieston, cholera of 1832, [815], [833] note
Comatose fever, [5], [20], [75]
Connemara, famine and fever of 1821-22, [268]
Constantinople, inoculation at [463-467], [475]
Copenhagen, adult smallpox in 1833, [612]
Cork, 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, [839]
Cormack, John Rose, relapsing fever, [204]
Cotton mills, typhus in, [152],
effects of on married women, [767],
adverse to cholera, [827]
Country disease, name of dysentery in Ireland, [226-7]
Coventry, infantile diarrhoea, [765] and note
Covey, John, formal inoculation, [505]
Cowan, Robert, Glasgow typhus, [191],
little smallpox among Irish adults, [601]
Cowpox, 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],
see also [Vaccination]
Cox, Daniel, fever of 1741, [83] note
Craigie, David, Edinburgh enteric fever, [187],
cholera at Newburn 1832, [804],
at Edinburgh, [812],
history of cholera, [860] note
Cromarty, cholera of 1832, [814]
Cromwell, Oliver, dies of epidemic ague, [303]
Crook, John, sells bark in 1658, [320]
Crookshank, Edgar, describes cowpox, [561] note,
witnesses contamination of milk, [735]
Cross, John Green, Norwich smallpox, [578],
inoculation in 1819, [591]
Croup, name for diphtheria in Bucks 1793, [716],
in Glasgow in 1819, [738] note
Croydon, scarlatina from blood &c., [735],
increase of diphtheria, [742]
Cucumbers, theory of in fever of 1624, [32]
Cupar Fife, crystalline smallpox, [575]
Cullen, William, definitions of scarlatina and cynanche, [737],
rickets congenital, [767]
Currie, James, typhus in Liverpool, [141],
inoculation, [508], [511],
cold affusions in scarlatina, [723]
Darlington, enteric fever and water-supply, [221],
cholera nostras 18th cent., [772]
Darwin, Charles, quantity of seminal particles, [608] note
Deal, supposed typhoid in 1806, [165]
Dearths in England, [78], [125-6], [132], [159],
in Scotland, [30], [50], [82], [154], [599]
Deering, Charles, Nottingham smallpox in 1736, [522],
mild smallpox, [845]
Defoe, Daniel, the Plague and the Fire of London, [42]
Dengue, an analogy for influenza, [424]
Denman, Thomas, diphtheria of infants, [714]
Depuratory fevers, [21]
Dewar, Henry, smallpox of 1817, [575]
Diarrhoea, 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, [767-8]
Dillon, Dr, gaol-fever at Castlebar, [292]
Dimsdale, Baron, re-inoculation, [505],
opposes infant inoculations, [507],
general inoculations, [509]
Dingle, escapes famine of 1817, [262],
cholera of 1849, [840]
Diphtheria, identified in 18th cent., [679], [691] note, [702], [737] note,
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, [744]
Dispensaries in London, [16], [135]
Dixon, Joshua, Whitehaven fevers, [152], [571]
Dobson, Dr, Liverpool smallpox 1772-4, [537]
Dogs attacked by influenza, [354], [361], [371] note, [372], [398]
Donoughmore, fever in 1836, [277]
Dorset, epidemic agues in 1780, [369]
Douglas, James, post-mortem on case of fever, [55]
Douglass, William, smallpox and inoculation at Boston 1721, [486],
danger of inoculated smallpox, [607],
throat-distemper of New England 1735-6, [686-9]
Dover, Thomas, fever at Bristol 1696, [46],
agues in Glo’stershire, [74],
treated for smallpox by Sydenham, [446] note,
his success in smallpox in 1720, [449],
mildness of measles, [641] note
Drage, William, epidemic agues of 1658, [315],
transplantation of agues, [474] note,
incubation of measles, [655] note
Drogheda, dysentery at siege of, in 1649, [227],
cholera in 1832, [88],
in 1849, [839]
Drunkenness in London 18th cent., [84]
Dublin, 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, [839]
Dundalk, camp sickness, [230]
Dundee, 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, [859]
Dunkirk rant, [340]
Dunse, smallpox in 1733, [527],
inoculation revived, [590]
Duvillard, M., on saving of life by vaccination, [629]
Dysentery, 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, [792]
Earlsoham, malignant fever in a farmhouse, [161]
East Indiamen, fevers in, [117]
Edinburgh, 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, [211] note,
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, [855]
Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, opposes Vaccination Bill, [609]
Ellenborough, second Earl of, brings in Vaccination Bill, [606]
Elliotson, John, agues in 1826-28, [378]
Elyot, Sir Thomas, infantile maladies of 16th cent., [666]
Ennis, chief months of fever 1846-48, [288]
Enteric Fever, epidemic of 1661 identified as, [8] note,
“little fever” identified as, [70],
probable cases of in 1804-10, [165],
in London in 1826, [183-6],
alleged at North Tawton in 1839, [196] note,
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, [788] note
Epidemic Constitutions copied by Sydenham from Hippocrates, [10]
Evelyn, 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, [331] note,
treated in smallpox, [445]
Exeter, 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, [854]
Faröe Islands, strangers’ cold, [432]
Farr, William, endorses Watt’s doctrine of displacement, [658],
cholera and elevation of ground, [847],
cholera and Newcastle drinking-water, [850]
Febricula or “little fever” of 1720-30, [67-70]
Feckenheim, camp sickness, [108]
Ferguson, Dr, of Aberdeen, measles in 1808, [651-2]
Ferguson, Robert, favours inoculation in 1825, [592]
Ferriar, John, typhus severe in migrants to towns, [101],
fevers in Manchester, [149],
need for fever-hospitals, [158],
troubles of a young couple, [552]
Ferryden, cholera in 1833, [815], [834]
Fever Hospitals, committee on in 1818, [178]
Fire of London, alleged effect on plague, [42]
Fletcher, Andrew, state of Scotland end of 17th cent., [49]
“Flox and Smallpox,” meaning of, [436] note
Forbes, Sir John, inoculation in Sussex, [591]
Fordyce, John, miliary fever, [130]
Fordyce, Sir William, malignant sore-throat in 1773, [707],
prevalence of rickets, [756]
Foster, Sir Michael, Old Bailey Black Assizes, [93]
Foster, Sir Walter, on cerebro-spinal fever diagnosed as typhoid, [863]
Fothergill, Anthony, influenza of 1775, [359],
in horses, [361]
Fothergill, 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], [638] note,
epidemic sore-throat 1746-48, [696], [737]
Fothergill, Samuel, scarlatina in 1814, [723]
Fowler, Thomas, arsenic in ague, [368]
Freind, John, Sydenham’s varieties of fever, [27] note,
petition to Commons on drink, [84],
sickness of Peterborough’s expedition 1705, [106],
adverse to inoculation, [478]
Frewen, Thomas, methods of inoculation, [492],
Boerhaave’s antidotes, [494] note
Fuller, Thomas, inoculation, [489] note
Gaddesden, John of, uses “mesles” for morbilli, [632]
Gairloch, fevers in 18th cent., [155]
Galway, plague of 1649, [227],
fever of 1741, [243],
fever of 1821-22, [269],
gaol fever in 1848, [291],
cholera of 1832, [816],
of 1849, [839]
Gaol 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, [628]
Gaskell, Mrs, the fever episode in ‘Jane Eyre,’ [181] note,
distress of the working class in Manchester in 1839-41, [197]
Gateshead, fever in 1790, [142],
cholera in 1832, [803],
cholera in 1853, [849]
Gatti, Angelo, method and results of inoculation, [495-7]
Gaulter, Henry, Manchester cholera of 1832, [826]
Geach, Francis, influenza and astrology, [405],
dysentery of, 1781, [783]
Geary, W. J., the Limerick poor in 1836, [275],
age-incidence of typhus, [276]
Geneva, vital statistics of, [443] note, [623]
George I. sanctions inoculation, [468-9]
George Ham, epidemic pneumonia (?) in 1747, [355]
Germany, names of influenza in 1712, [339],
apparent extinction of smallpox, [612],
re-vaccination, [612]
Gibraltar, ship fever at, [115],
influenza of 1837, [388]
Gilchrist, Ebenezer, nervous fever of 1735, [75],
inoculations at Dumfries, [509]
Gladstone, rt. hon. W. E., on dearth of 1767, [132] note
Glasgow, 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],
whooping-cough, [670], [672],
relation of same to measles, [675],
scarlatina 1835-39, [725],
milk scarlatina, [734] note,
“bowel-hive,” [758],
dysentery of 1827-28, [786],
of 1836, [789],
cholera of 1832, [808],
of 1848-9, [836],
of 1853-4, [855],
of 1866, [859]
Gloucester, Duke of, dies of smallpox, [438]
Gloucester, agues in 1727-29, [74]
Goodsir, John, enteric fever at Anstruther, [199]
Goole, infantile diarrhoea, [762], [765] note
Grainger, James, anomalous fever in 1753, [123]
Grant, William, pestilential fever in London, [137],
influenza of 1775, [359],
fever and sore-throat, [707]
Graunt, John, exactness of the early bills of mortality, [653] note
Graves, Robert J., typhus fatal to the well-to-do, [102],
fever in Galway, [270],
jaundice in relapsing fever, [272],
spotted typhus a new type, [277],
typhus begins like a cold, [278] note,
failure of blooding in influenza, [282],
mild and fatal scarlatina, [722], [724],
type of scarlatina not affected by treatment, [725],
writings on cholera, [831] note
Gray, Edward, collective inquiry on influenza of 1782, [363], [365]
Greenock, high typhus death-rates, [209],
cholera of 1832, [813]
Gregory, George, compares London smallpox of 1825 with great 18th cent. epidemics, [593-5],
advocates re-vaccination, [612]
Gregory, James, follows course of influenza in 1775, [361]
Griffin, Daniel, infantile mortality in Limerick, [602]
Grimsby, cholera in 1893, [860]
Grimshaw, T. W., fever and rainfall in Dublin, [298],
relation of whooping-cough to measles, [676] note
Grippe, la, [339] note
Guide, Philip, on Talbor, [319]
Guilford, Lord, his fever treated by bark, [321]
Gull, Sir William W., report on cholera, [846] note
Haeser, Heinrich, identities of 18th cent. throat-distempers, [691] note
Hague, The, ages in 18th cent. smallpox, [623]
Hales, Stephen, ventilation of Newgate, [94],
ventilation of ships, [119]
Halifax, semi-rural industries of, [145],
smallpox at in 1681, [458],
inoculation at, [483]
Hamilton, Sir David, case of fever in London in 1709, [55],
factitious miliary fever, [128],
fever and sore-throat in 1704, [704] note
Hamilton, dysentery in 1801, [785],
cholera of 1848-9, [838]
Hampstead, agues in 1781, [367],
scarlatina in 1786, [713]
Hampton, U. S., throat-distemper in 18th cent., [690]
Harris, Walter, influenza of 1688, [336],
mildness of smallpox in infants, [441],
reference to inoculation in 1721, [467],
whooping-cough, [667],
summer diarrhoea fatal to London infants, [749], [763]
Harty, William, Irish epidemic of 1817-19, [264],
affinities of dysentery, [782],
cholera in Dublin prisons, [816]
Hastings, smallpox in 1731, [521]
Haverfordwest, buying the smallpox, [471],
diphtheria in 1849, [738] note
Haviland, Alfred, the Hippocratic “constitutions,” [10] note,
village epidemic of ague in 1858, [393]
Hawkins, Bisset, cavils at Watt, [658]
Hawkins, Caesar, inoculator, [504], [515]
Haygarth, John, typhus in Chester, [41], [143],
miliary fever, [130],
influenza of 1803, [376],
procuring the smallpox, [477],
census of Chester after smallpox in 1774, [544] note,
infantile deaths at Chester, [553-4],
letter on Jenner’s cowpox project in 1794, [559]
Heberden, William, junior, supposed decrease of dysentery, [747], [774]
Heberden, William, senior, smallpox least dangerous to infants, [442],
a failure of inoculation, [498],
measles in 1753, [644],
scarlatina and angina, [712] note
Hecker, J. F. C., identity of throat-epidemics, [691] note, [704] note
Hecquet, Ph., reasons against inoculation, [479] note
Helmont, J. B. van, ridiculed by Barker, [450] note
Henry, Thomas, smallpox in different parts of Manchester, [556] note
Hertford, smallpox in 1722, [519]
Hewett, Cornwallis, cases of enteric fever, [185]
Heysham, John, Carlisle typhus, [147],
smallpox, [538], [555], [570],
measles, [646],
scarlatina, [712], [723]
Hillary, William, Ripon fevers, [72-3],
copious bloodings, [74] note,
nervous fever in Barbados, [127],
influenza in Barbados, [352], [412],
volcanic waves at Bridgetown, [411],
smallpox mild there, [548]
Hippocrates, epidemic constitutions, [9]
Hirsch, August, identity of 18th cent. throat-distempers, [691] note, [737] note,
history of infantile diarrhoea, [758],
degrees of epidemic dysentery, [774]
Holland, Sir Henry, advises re-vaccination, [613],
“hypothesis of insect life” in cholera, [827] note
Holy Island, ship typhus, [109]
Hongkong fever, resembles influenza, [423] note
Horses attacked by influenza in 1658, [313],
in 1688, [337],
in 1727-29, [345],
in 1732, [348],
in 1737, [348],
in 1758, [353],
in 1743 and 1750, [354],
in 1760, [355],
in 1775, [361],
in 1783, [371] note,
in 1788, [372]
Howard, John, effects of the window-tax, [88],
discoveries of gaol-fever, [95],
smallpox in three gaols, [544]
Hull, infantile diarrhoea, [762], [765] note,
cholera of 1832, [823],
of 1849, [845],
of 1854, [851]
Hume, David, influence of climate etc., [224]
Hunter, John, M.D., typhus in London, [15], [134], [138]
Hutchinson, James, change in fevers since 17th cent., [3]
Hutchinson, Jonathan, vaccinal syphilis, [562] note
Huxham, John, Plymouth fevers 1727-29, [73-4],
worm fever in 1734, [75],
typhus, [76-77],
ship fever, [78],
gaol fever at Launceston in 1742, [93],
influenza in 1729, [345],
horse-cold in 1727, [345],
influenza of 1733, [347],
influenza and horse-cold of 1737, [348-9],
influenza of 1743, [351],
smallpox of 1724-25, [520],
smallpox of 1751, [529],
malignant measles 1749, [656],
anginose fever of 1734, [684],
epidemic sore-throat of 1751, [695], [699]
Iceland, dust clouds from volcanic action, [414]
India, cholera before 1817, [860],
creation of the endemic area, [861]
Industrial Revolution, the, [145]
Infantile Remittent Fever, [5-8]
Influenza, historically mixed with epidemic ague, [300],
probable etymology of, [304],
names of before 1743, [305],
retrospect of influenzas to 1659, [306-313],
influenza of 1675, [326],
of 1679, [328],
of 1688, [335],
of 1693, [337],
of 1712, [339],
of 1729, [343],
probable in 1728, [346],
of 1733, [346],
of 1737, [348],
of 1743, [349],
of 1758, [353],
of 1759 in Peru, [354],
of 1762, [356],
of 1767, [358],
of 1775, [359],
of 1782, [362],
of 1788, [370],
of 1803, [374],
of 1831, [379],
of 1833, [380],
of 1837, [383],
of 1847-48, [389],
minor epidemics, [391],
of 1889-94, [393],
antiquity and sameness of, [398],
views of Willis and Sydenham, [399],
miasmatic hypothesis of Boyle, [399-402],
theory of Arbuthnot, [402],
theory of Noah Webster, [405],
a phenomenal cause needed, [407],
relation to epidemic agues, [409],
the epidemic of 1761 at Barbados and the earthquake, [409],
the earthquake of Lisbon and influenzas, [411],
earthquakes and the influenza of 1782, [413],
miasmatic sickness following earthquakes in Jamaica, [415],
in Amboina, [418] note,
and in Sicily, [419],
possible sources of miasmata of influenza in 1693, [420],
epidemic of 1688 and the earthquake of Lima, [421],
possible sources of S. American epidemic in 1720, direction in which the true theory lies, [425],
outbreaks at sea, [425-431],
strangers’ colds, [431-433].
also [Horses].
Inoculation of smallpox, a Greek practice, [463],
begun in London, [467],
popular origins of, [471],
Voltaire’s legend of Circassian, [472] note,
probably grew out of transplantation of disease, [474],
religious symbolism of inoculation, [475],
etymology of, [476],
not an antidote, [477],
controversy on in England, [477],
reality of as practised by Nettleton, [482],
at Boston, New England, [485],
cases of failure, [487],
cases of death from, [489],
revival of in 1741, [489],
at Charleston in 1738, [490],
as practised by Frewen, [492],
by Kirkpatrick, [493],
the blister method of, [494],
Gatti’s practice in, [495],
Sutton’s practice in, [498],
opposition to Sutton’s method of, [499],
Watson’s experiment in, [500],
Mudge’s experiment in, [501],
tests of its validity, [502],
extent of in England in 18th cent., [504-9],
in Scotland, [509],
value of, [511],
at Blandford, [513],
at the Foundling Hospital, [514],
known failures of, [515],
testimonies to value of, [516],
advocates of in 19th cent., [586],
Lipscomb’s poem on, [587],
preference of populace for, [589],
practised by Walker as vaccination, [590],
extent of, [590-2],
made penal, [606],
history of the doctrine that it was a nuisance, [607-10],
did not contain the principle of re-vaccination, [610]
Intermittent Fevers, Sydenham’s view of, [11],
in Ireland after the relapsing fever of 1826, [273],
and of 1847-9, [297].
also [Ague].
Inverness, typhus at, [110],
cholera of 1832, [814],
of 1849, [838]
Ipswich, ship typhus at, [110],
scarlatina in 1771, [708]
Jamaica, sickness after earthquake, [416]
Jenner, Edward, relapsing fever in his house, [156],
inoculates with crude matter, [502],
collects failures of inoculation, [515],
inoculates with swinepox, [558],
proposes to inoculate with cowpox, [558],
indicates ulcerous characters of cowpox, [560],
his opinion on origin of smallpox and cowpox, [562],
calls cowpox variolae vaccinae, [563],
tests the virtue of cowpox, [565],
makes interest with the great, [566],
demands prohibition of inoculation, [609],
opposes Watt’s doctrine of measles, [657]
Jenner, J. C., epidemic ague in 1784, [369],
general inoculation, [509],
why smallpox malignant, [550]
Jenner, Sir William, diagnosis of continued fevers, [4], [183],
diphtheria, [739] note,
rickets a diathesis, [767]
Jesty, Benjamin, inoculates with cowpox, [558]
Johnstone, James, Kidderminster fevers 1752-56, [124],
sequelae of measles, [660] note,
sore-throat and fever, [702], [704],
the scarlet eruption, [710]
Johnstone, James, junior, dies of gaol fever, [153],
writes on the scarlatina of 1778, [710]
Jolly rant, name of influenza in 1675, [327] note, [328]
Jones, John, fevers of the Greeks not in our climate, [301],
agues of 1558, [307]
Jones, John, dysentery in Wales, [777]
Jurin, James, arguments for inoculation, [479],
his authority, [480],
biographical sketch of, [481] note
Kanturk, incidents at in famine of 1818, [265]
Katharine, Queen of Charles II., her fever in 1663, [13]
Kell, John Butler, cholera at Sunderland 1831, [798]
Kellwaye, Simon, measles and smallpox, [633]
Kelso, agues in 18th cent., [369],
cholera in 1848-9, [838]
Kendal, vaccination 1819-21, [584]
Kennedy, Henry, type of Dublin fever in 1847, [289],
in 1862, [298]
Kennedy, Peter, inoculation at Constantinople, [464],
procuring smallpox in Scotland, [471]
Kerr, George, fever in Aberdeen, [176]
Kidderminster, fevers in 1727-29, [124] note,
in 1751-56, [124],
sequelae of measles, [660],
sore-throat and fever in 1748, [701], [704],
in 1778, [710]
Kilgour, Alexander, typhus one of the exanthemata, [189],
ratio of spotted cases, [193]
Kilkenny, sickness in 1846, [282]
Kilmarnock, 18th cent. smallpox, [526],
cholera of 1832, [814],
of 1849, [838]
Kiltearn, paupers in 1697, [51] note,
smallpox in 18th cent., [541]
Kingsley, Charles, cholera of 1854, [851] note
Kink, old name of whooping-cough, [666]
Kirkmaiden, smallpox and fever in 18th cent., [528]
Kirkpatrick, or Kilpatrick, J., inoculates at Charleston, [90],
in London, [491], [493]
Kite, Charles, second inoculations, [503],
failures of inoculation, [515]
La Condamine, M. de, case of Timoni’s daughter, [488] note,
advocates inoculation, [494],
estimates saving of life by same, [516]
La Motraye, M. de, procuring smallpox in Circassia, [472]
Lamport, John, fever in Hampshire 1680, [21],
his success in smallpox, [453]
Lamprey, Jones, types of famine sickness in Skull 1846, [287], [288]
Lancaster, typhus in 1782, [151]
Langton, William, opposes formal inoculation, [500]
Lansdowne, Marquis of, inoculation and vaccination, [606], [607]
Launceston, gaol typhus, [93], [97],
diphtheria, [740]
Laurie, J. Adair, statistics of Glasgow cholera hospital in 1832, [811]
Laycock, Thomas, influenza at York, [389] note
Le Cat, Claude Nicolas, the Rouen fever of 1753, [121]
Leeds, typhus in 18th cent., [146],
in 1802, [160],
statistics of fever hospital, [164],
fever in 1817, [171],
notification at in 1804, [180] note,
typhus in 1847, [207] note,
influenza in 1675, [327],
smallpox in 1689-99, [458],
general inoculations, [510],
smallpox in 1781, [538], [555],
cholera nostras in 1825, [773],
dysentery in 1849, [791], [842],
cholera in 1849, [847]
Leith, cholera of 1832, [814],
of 1848, [836]
Lettsom, John Coakley, gaol fever, [97],
London fevers in 1773, [135],
inoculation of infants, [507],
general inoculation at Ware, [511]
London smallpox more than in the Bills, [534],
smallpox in 1808, [570],
inoculation not contagious, [608],
saving of life in typhus, [628],
scarlatina in 1793, [718]
Levett, Robert, amateur in medicine, [134]
Levison, George, scarlatina in 1777, [708]
Leyburn, fever in 1813, [167]
Limerick, famine of 1741, [242],
statistics of fever hospital, [258],
pauperism of 1836, [275],
statistics of fever, [276],
of infantile mortality, [602],
cholera of 1832, [818],
of 1849, [839]
Lind, James, desires history of British fevers, [1],
ventilation of gaols, [95],
ship fever, [111],
Sutton’s pipes, [119],
smallpox in the ‘Royal George,’ [543],
cholera nostras at Portsmouth, [772]
Linnaeus, Carolus, as nosologist, [670]
Lipscomb, G., his prize poem on Inoculation, [588]
Lisbon, ship fever at, [105]
Liskeard, diphtheria in 1748, [694]
Liverpool, typhus in 18th cent., [140],
enteric in 1836, [201],
the Irish fever of 1847, [206],
recent typhus, [214],
influenza atmosphere in 1837, [388],
general inoculations, [504], [508], [511],
18th cent. smallpox, [537],
age-incidence of same in 1837, [624],
diarrhoea, [765],
dysentery in the Irish fever, [790],
cholera of 1832, [826],
of 1849, [847],
of 1854, [851],
of 1866, [857]
Livingston, Dr, Aberdeen sore-throat in 1790, [718],
dysentery in 1789, [784]
Lombard, H. C., enteric fever in Britain, [188] note, [201]
London, Asiatic cholera of 1832, [820],
of 1833, [834],
supposed in 1837, [835],
epidemic of 1848-9, [841], [847],
of 1854, [853],
of 1866, [857]
London, cholera nostras in, in Sydenham’s time, [769],
every autumn, [770],
in 1669-70, [771],
described by Willis, [772]
London, diphtheria in [741-2]
London, dysentery in, names of in the Bills, [774],
symptoms of in 1669, [776],
epidemic of 1762, [779],
of 1779-81, [783]
London, fever in, endemic, [13],
in Sydenham’s time, [18-22],
epidemic of 1685-6, [22],
identified as typhus, [27],
statistics of to end of 17th cent., [43],
epidemic of 1694, [45],
statistics of 1701-20, [54],
epidemic of 1709-10, [54], [57],
sample case of, [55],
a case of relapsing in 1710, [57],
epidemic of 1714, [59],
in 1718, [64],
statistics of 1720-40, [65],
weekly maxima 1726-29, hysteric or little, [67],
relapsing, [69],
identified as enteric, [70],
epidemic typhus of 1741-42, [78-81],
in Marshalsea prison, [91],
at Old Bailey in 1750, [93],
in gaols, [97],
slow remittent of 1751-55, [122],
typhus from 1770 to 1800, [133-140],
localities of, [140] note,
hospital for in 1802, [160],
slight prevalence of from 1803 to 1816, [163],
possible enteric cases in 1808, [165],
epidemic of 1816-19, [168],
bred by insanitary state of houses, [170],
relapsing in 1817, [172],
cases of mixed in general hospitals, [178],
relapsing in 1826-28, [182],
enteric in 1826, [183],
change of type to spotted, [188],
purely typhus in 1837-38, [194],
epidemic typhus of 1847, [205],
in part relapsing, [208],
relapsing in 1868, [211],
ratios of typhus and enteric at Fever Hospital, [213],
season of enteric, [217]
London, Fire of, supposed effect on plague, [42]
London, infantile diarrhoea in, entered as “griping in the guts,” [747],
Harris on in 1689, [749],
weekly bills of in 17th cent., [750], [752], [753],
annual deaths 1667-1720, [753],
some 18th cent. weekly bills, [754], [755],
conditions favouring, [756],
19 cent. statistics, [759-60],
recent death-rates moderate, [761],
reasons of greater fatality in former times, [763]
London influenza weekly mortalities, of 1580, [310],
of 1675, [326],
of 1679, [329],
of 1688, [336],
of 1693, [338],
of 1729, [343],
of 1733 and 1737, [349],
of 1743, [350],
of 1762, [356],
of 1775, [359] note,
of 1782, [363],
of 1803, [375],
of 1831, [379],
of 1833, [380],
of 1837, [384],
of 1847, [390],
of 1890-94, [394]
London, measles in, deaths from in 17th cent., [634], [635], [640],
epidemic of 1670, [653],
epidemic of 1674, [656],
indirect effects of same contrasted with those of smallpox, [658-9],
deaths from in 18th cent., [641], [643],
epidemic of 1705-6, [641],
fatalities one-tenth those of smallpox, [644],
ratio of to all deaths, [647],
epidemic of 1807-8, [650-1],
compared with Glasgow, [655],
deaths from 1813 to 1837, [660],
in 1837-39, [662],
two seasonal maxima, [664]
London, sanitary state of under George II., [84],
improvement in after 1766, [133],
of workmen’s houses in 1819, [170]
London, scarlatina or diphtheria in, Morton’s cases, [682],
cases 1739, [692],
Fothergill’s cases, [696],
Fordyce’s cases, [707],
Levison’s cases, [708],
Sims’ cases, [713],
Willan’s cases, [714],
in 1796-1802, [719],
Bateman’s notes of, [722],
mild in 1822, [723],
recent range of fatality, [730],
fatalities at home and in hospital, [730],
seasonal maximum, [731]
London, smallpox of 1628 in, [435],
annual deaths 1629-61, [436-437],
epidemic of 1641, [437],
after the Restoration, [437],
ratio of adult cases 17th cent., [444],
mild type in 1667-9, [452],
compared with that of 1751, [455],
estimate of proportion of faces marked by, [454],
epidemic of 1694, [458],
of 1710, [461],
annual deaths 1701-20, [461],
private hospitals for, [463],
public hospital for, [505], [533],
prevalence in middle of 18th cent., [529],
table of weekly deaths in 1752, [532],
smaller mortality of infants from than in provincial towns, [534],
annual deaths 1761-1800, [535],
in the Foundling Hospital, [550],
annual deaths 1801-37, [568],
epidemic of 1817-19, [580],
in Christ’s Hospital in 1818, [581],
epidemic of 1825, [593],
annual deaths 1837-1893, [613],
excessive incidence of from 1871 to 1885, [616],
age, sex and fatality of in epidemic of 1871-72, [618],
varying fatality of from 1871 to 1893, [619],
fatality at each age-period in 1893, [619],
ages at death from in 1845, [624]
London, whooping-cough, ratio of to all deaths 1731-1831, [647],
annual mortality 1701-1782, [669],
same from 1783 to 1812, [655]
Londonderry, sickness in siege of, [229],
cholera in 1832, [818]
Louis, P. Ch. A fièvre typhoide, [196] note
Lower, Richard, against bark in fever, [323],
his advice to Queen Mary, [459]
Lucas, James, typhus in Leeds, [146],
smallpox and inoculation, [510], [555]
Lucretius, air-borne infection, [408]
Lynn, smallpox in 1819, [580]
Lynn, Walter, opposes blooding in smallpox, [449],
smallpox in 1710-14, [462]
Macaulay, Lord, on the Soho plague-pit, [38],
eloquent on smallpox, [454],
on the death of Queen Mary, [460] note
McCarthy, Alexander, state of Skibbereen in 1826, [274]
Maidstone, gaol fever at, [153],
diphtheria and ground-water, [744]
Maitland, Charles, inoculator, [467-71]
Mallet, Mr, catalogue of earthquakes, [407]
Malthus, T. R., population and potatoes, [253], [284], [285] note,
one infection will replace another, [629]
Manchester, miliary fever becomes rare, [131],
increase of population, [146],
typhus in end of 18th cent., [149],
statistics of fever hospital, [164],
distress and typhus 1839-41, [197],
amount of enteric fever in 1836, [201],
typhus in 1847, [207],
in 1863-5, [209],
smallpox in 18th cent., [536],
extent of early vaccination, [583],
mortality by smallpox in 1826, [593],
measles in 18th cent., [644],
scarlatina in 1805, [722],
cholera nostras in 1794, [773],
cholera in 1832, [826],
in 1849, [846]
Manningham, Sir Richard, on “little” or hysteric fever, [70]
Mapletoft, Dr, his experience of smallpox, [546]
Mary, Queen of William III, dies of smallpox, [459]
Marsh fevers distinct from epidemic agues, [302], [367], [369]
Marshalsea prison, state of in 1729, [91]
Mason, Simon, on ague-curers, [325]
Massey, Isaac, smallpox seldom fatal in schoolboys, [545]
Mather, Cotton, instigates to inoculation, [485]
Maty, M. defends Gatti’s inoculations, [496],
proposes general inoculation of infants, [506]
May, William, fever and influenza in Cornwall, [373]
Mead, Richard, the Dunkirk rant, [340],
no failures of inoculation, [487], [488]
Measles, etymology of, [632],
variolae translated by, [633],
in 17th cent., [634], [640],
Sydenham on, [635],
indirect mortality from in 1674, [636],
in 18th cent., [641],
at Manchester, [644],
at Northampton, [645],
in the Foundling Hospital, [646],
increased fatality at end of 18 cent., [647],
anomalous at Uxbridge, [649],
the great epidemic of 1807-8, [651],
the epidemic in Glasgow, [652],
comparison of in London and Glasgow, [655],
Watt’s doctrine of substitution, [655-7],
reception of same, [657],
sequelae of, [659],
recent statistics of, [660],
recent highest death-rates from, [663],
progression of epidemics, [663],
season of, [664],
age-incidence of, [664],
an illustrative epidemic of, [665]
Merthyr Tydvil, enteric fever, [219],
cholera in 1849, [844-5], [847],
in 1854, [851],
in 1866, [857]
Miasmatic infection, Sydenham’s and Boyle’s doctrine of, [29], [400],
of enteric fever, [222-3],
of endemic ague, [302],
of influenza in, [401-5],
after earthquakes, [415-20],
of dengue, [424],
not excluded in scarlatina, [732],
of diphtheria, [745],
of dysentery, [788],
of cholera, [842]
Middlesborough, enteric fever, [221]
Miliary fever, [72], [76], [124], [127], [128-131]
Milk, a vehicle of enteric fever, [222],
of scarlatina, [734],
of diphtheria, [745]
Millar, Dr, isolation of fever patients, [178]
Miller, Hugh, Cromarty cholera, [814]
Molyneux, Dr, influenza of 1688, [336],
of 1693, [337]
Minorca, localized influenza of 1748, [352],
mild and severe smallpox, [547]
Missenden, Great, inoculation revived, [592]
Moir, D. M., Musselburgh cholera, [806]
Monro, Alexander, primus, influenza of 1762, [357] note,
procuring the smallpox in Scotland, [471],
inoculation in same, [509]
Monro, A. Campbell, measles at Jarrow, [663]
Monro, Donald, war typhus, [110]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, favours inoculation, [467-8],
referred to in prize poem, [588]
Moore, John, on “putrid” fevers, [130],
improved health of London, [133]
Morley, Christopher Love, epidemic agues and influenzas of 1678-79, [329], [332]
Morton, Richard, worm fever, [7],
scale of malignity in fevers, [16],
fevers of 1678-80, [21],
smallpox not fatal to infants, [441],
opposed to the cooling regimen in do., [448],
fourteen things that make smallpox severe, [451-2],
pock-pits, [456],
measles of 1674, [657],
his view of scarlatina, [682],
cholera nostras, [771],
dysentery infective, [772]
Moryson, Fynes, dietetic habits of Irish, [226]
Moseley, Benjamin, practice of vaccination in 1808, [586]
Moss, Mr, Liverpool public health 18th cent., [141] note, [368]
Mudge, John, experiment in inoculation, [501], [558]
Mulgrave, Lord, vaccination among rich and poor, [589]
Murchison, Charles, enteric fever in Edinburgh, [200],
cause of increase of same in London, [202],
history of relapsing fever 1842, [203],
enteric of 1846, [206] note,
table of typhus in hospitals, [210],
confuses marsh agues with epidemic agues, [303-4] note,
cerebro-spinal fever a variety of typhus, [863]
Murre, old name of influenza, [305], [432]
Musselburgh, cholera in 1832, [806]
Nairn, war typhus in 1746, [109],
cholera in 1832, [813-14]
Navy, health of in 17th cent., [102],
in 18th cent., [104],
Smollett on, [107] note,
in the Seven Years’ War and American War, [111-117],
improvement in, [119]
Neath, high scarlatina death-rate, [728],
cholera in 1849, [845],
in 1866, [857]
Nervous fever, of Willis in 1661, [5],
or hysteric, [67], [70],
of Wintringham and Hillary, [72],
of Gilchrist, [75],
of Huxham, [76],
or putrid, [120-128]
Nettleton, Thomas, pioneer of inoculation, [470],
inspires Jurin, [479],
gives a real smallpox, [483],
his theory of inoculation, [483-4],
ceases to inoculate, [485],
his statistics of smallpox fatality, [518]
New acquaintance, [308],
ague, [306], [307],
delight, [332],
disease, [312-13], [344],
Boyle on, [313] note,
distemper of 1688, [335],
fever of Sydenham, [23], [27]
Newburn, cholera of 1832, [804]
Newcastle-on-Tyne, typhus in 18th cent., [142], [156] note,
in 1816-19, [172],
“jolly rant” of 1675, [327] note,
agues of 1780, [369],
inoculation of infants, [507],
no smallpox statistics, [539],
comparison of inoculations and vaccinations, [582],
scarlatina in 1778-9, [712],
in 1779-1802, [720],
in 1802-27, [723],
dysentery 18th cent., [780], [784],
cholera of 1831-2, [802],
cholera of 1853, [849]
Newcastle-under-Lyme, cholera of 1849, [847]
Newhaven, cholera of 1848, [835]
Newman, John Henry, priests in the Irish fever, [207] note,
“chemists for our cooks,” [280]
Newton Stewart, smallpox of 1816, [574]
Norfolk Island, strangers’ cold of, [432]
North, Roger, his fever in 1661, [8],
on Lord Guildford’s fever, [321],
fashion of blood-letting, [325] note
Northampton, smallpox statistics in 1747, [524],
vital statistics, [525],
measles and whooping-cough 18th cent., [645],
infantile diarrhoea, [765]
Norwich, high mortality of 1740-42, [82],
smallpox beginning of 19th cent., [569], [578],
epidemic of 1819, [578],
vaccinations at, [585],
inoculations at, [591],
smallpox in 1838-9, [605],
infantile diarrhoea, [766]
Notification at Leeds in 1804, [180] note,
and incorrect diagnosis, [864]
Nottingham, fever in 1808, [165],
18th cent. smallpox, [522],
infantile diarrhoea, [761-2]
O’Brien, John, Dublin dysentery in 1825, [271],
relapsing fever in 1826, [272],
intermittents in 1827, [273], [297]
O’Brien, W. Smith, native resources of Ireland, [281]
O’Connell, Daniel, export of Irish corn in famine, [280]
O’Connell, Maurice, Irish famine of 1740, [241],
dysentery from it, [242],
the mortality from it, [244]
O’Connor, Dennis, types of fever in Cork 1849-65, [297]
O’Rourke, Rev. John, history of the Irish famine of 1847, [279] note
Ogle, William, influenza mortality, [395],
progression of measles epidemics, [663],
age and sex in scarlatina deaths, [729],
diarrhoea and heat, [762]
Oglethorpe, General, reports on state of gaols, [91]
Old Bailey, black assize of 1750, [93]
Ormerod, E. L., relapsing fever with miliaria, [129], [208]
Oxford, fevers of children in 1655 and 1661, [5-7],
epidemic fever in Wadham College, [59],
typhus in 1785, [153],
smallpox in 1649 and 1654, [437],
in 1661, [439],
usually mild, [444],
cholera of 1854, [851] note
Paderborn, sickness in British troops, [110]
Painswick, typhus in 1785, [154],
epidemic agues, [369],
general inoculation, [509],
smallpox fatal during typhus, [550]
Paisley, an epidemic of fever in 1811, [165],
cholera of 1831-2, [813]
Palatinate, war typhus of 1621, [32]
Parish Clerks of London, the bills of become inadequate, [385], [594], [596],
statistics of smallpox from in 1628, [435],
scarlatina appears in, [725]
Paris, type of fever in 1700, [53],
smallpox of adults in 1825, [593],
same compared with Glasgow in 1850-51, [601], [611],
whooping-cough in 1578, [666],
cholera of 1832, [821], [830] note
Parkin, John, epidemics and electricity, [406] note,
cholera water-borne, [832]
Parsons, H. Franklin, reports on influenza of 1890-92, [396] note
Peacock, T. B., influenza of 1847, [391]
Pearson, George, nature of cowpox, [560],
cowpox not smallpox of the cow, [563],
second infection with cowpox impossible, [610]
Peel, Sir Robert, policy in Irish famine of 1817, [266],
in famine of 1845-46, [279]
Peninsular War, decline of fevers in Britain during, [162-64], [557], [569]
Pepys, Samuel, fever of 1661, [9],
of the queen in 1663, [13],
of 1694, [44],
duchess of Richmond’s smallpox, [454]
Percival, Thomas, decline of miliary fever, [131],
Manchester public health, [146],
statistics of smallpox, [536],
of measles, [644]
Perkins, W. L., nosology of putrid sore-throats, [712] note
Perth, fever of 1622, [30],
enteric fever in 1864, [210],
cholera of 1832, [813-14]
Peru, influenza of 1759, [354],
earthquake of 1687, [421],
influenza of 1720, [422]
Pestilential fever, [16], [22], [30], [67],
in London in 1773, [137]
Peterborough, plague in 1666-7, [34]
Pettenkofer, Max von, infection in the subsoil, [403],
English officials prejudiced against his doctrine, [859]
Peyer’s patches, theoretical relation of to ague, [2],
found diseased in London fevers, [186],
in Anstruther fevers, [189]
Philadelphia, measles brought to by Irish, [649]
Physicians, College of, memorial against drink, [84], [756],
inquiry on influenza of 1782, [363],
their Dispensary, [462] note,
declare inoculation in 1754 to be salutary, [516], [608],
but in 1807 to be mischievous, [609],
inquiries on cholera of 1849, [846] note
Plague, extinction of, [34-43],
effects of upon Chester, [40],
alarm of in 1710, [58],
rumour of in London in 1799, [140]
Plot, Robert, smallpox mild, [444]
Plymouth, 18th cent. types of fever, [74],
worm fever, [75],
malignant fever, [77],
ship fever, [78],
anginose fever, [125], [699],
dysentery and fever after Corunna, [166],
influenza of 1729, [345],
horse-colds, [345-6],
influenza of 1733, [347],
of 1743, [351],
of 1788, [371],
influenza in the fleet in 1782, [426],
smallpox of 1724-25, [520],
malignant sore-throat, [695], [699],
recent measles and scarlatina, [720],
dysentery, [778],
cholera of 1832, [829]
Pockpitted faces, in 17th cent. London, [454],
the Vaccine Board on decrease of, [456] note
Poland, buying the smallpox in, [473]
Popham, John, Cork workhouse in 1846, [286]
Population, increase of North of Trent, [144],
in Ireland, [250],
after potato famine, [283],
principle of, [657]
Port Royal, earthquake of 1692, [415]
Portsmouth, dysentery in crews in 1696, [104],
ship fever in 1779, [116],
influenza in new arrivals in 1788, [372],
agues and fluxes, [772]
Posse, old name of influenza or catarrh, [305] note, [308] note
Potatoes, in Ireland, [241], [252], [284]
Preston, infantile diarrhoea, [705],
suffers little from cholera, [823]
Prices, in 18th cent., [62], [131],
in 1801, [159],
in second half of French war, [162], [256-7],
effects of fall of in Ireland, [268]
Prichard, J. C., Bristol fever 1817-19, [173],
cases not isolated, [179]
Pringle, Sir John, ventilation of Newgate, [94],
war dysentery and typhus, [108-10],
nosology of continued fevers, [130],
improved state of London, [133],
little smallpox in campaigns, [545],
dysentery rarely epidemic in London, [779] note
Prisons, state of early in 18th cent., [90-92],
Howard’s visitations of, [95],
Lettsom’s cases of fever in, [97],
fever in 1785-88, [153],
little smallpox in, [544],
Neild’s reforms of, [628]
Pulteney, R., Blandford, smallpox, [513]
Purples, meaning of, [680]
Putrid fever, in the sense of Willis, [16],
in 18th century sense, [120-8], [129-30], [683], [700]
Putrid measles, [705]
Pylarini, Jacob, on transplantation of smallpox, [465], [476]
Quarantine, for plague pressed on the Ministry by Swift, [58] note,
in the cholera of 1831-32, [794], [798], [799], [814], [820]
Queensferry North, vaccinations during an epidemic, [585]
Radcliffe, John, attends Queen Mary in smallpox, [460] note
Ranby, John, his pamphlet against Jurin, [481] note,
his inoculation practice, [504]
Reid, John, enteric fever at Edinburgh, [199]
Reid, Seaton, relapsing synocha, [177]
Relapsing fever, case of in London 1710, [57],
in 1727-29, [69], [74],
at Edinburgh 1735, [76],
in Gloucestershire in 1794, [156],
in London in 1817, [168], [172],
affinities of, [177],
in Scotland in 1817-19, [174],
in 1827-28, [181],
in London, [182],
in Scotland in 1842-44, [203],
in 1847, [208],
in 1869-71, [210],
in Dublin in 1738, [239],
in 1746-48, [243],
in Ireland in 1799-1801, [450],
in 1817-19, [266],
in 1826, [271-2],
in 1846-7, [289],
not always associated with want, [211]
Remittent fever, [68], [69] note, [72],
in London in 1751-55, [122],
Cormack on, [392] note
Reynolds, Revell, epidemic agues of 1780, [366]
Rheumatic fever, its relation to dysentery, [782]
Rickets in London 18th cent., [756],
relation of to infantile diarrhoea, [766]
Rigby, Edward, vaccinations at Norwich, [584]
Ripon, fevers at in 1726-28, [72]
Roberton, John, vaccination at Manchester, [583],
smallpox after vaccination, [597] note,
measles in Edinburgh 1808, [651],
criticism of Watt, [658]
Robertson, Robert, ship fever, [114],
influenza of 1782 in the fleet, [426],
no fatalities in smallpox, [546]
Rochdale, fever of 1818, [171]
Rogan, Francis, slaughter-houses not noxious, [236] note,
population in Tyrone 1817, [253],
cottiers in same, [255],
famine of 1817, [257],
dysentery and fever of, [258-260],
ratio of attacks, [263],
smallpox in the famine of 1817, [573]
Rogers, James E. Thorold, starvation wages 18th cent., [62],
Malthus and high standard of living, [285] note
Rogers, Joseph, criticism of Sydenham, [10],
epidemic in Wadham College, [59],
fevers in Cork 18th cent., [234]
Roseola, epidemic, supposed the scarlatina of Sydenham, [681]
Rouen, epidemic fever of 1753-4, [121]
Royston, William, epidemic agues of 1780 and 1808, [378] note
Rumsey, Henry, epidemic sore-throat in Chesham, [715],
“the croup” in the same, [716]
Rush, Benjamin, smallpox after inoculation, [488],
infantile diarrhoea, [758]
Russell, Lord John, cost of Irish potato famine, [282]
Russell, James B., scarlatina from cows’ milk, [734] note
Ruston, Thomas, antidotes to smallpox, [494] note
Rutty, John, “putrid” fevers in Dublin, [127], [245],
nervous and relapsing fevers, [239], [240], [243],
famine fever of, 1740 [244],
agues and horse-colds, [354],
smallpox in Ireland, [543],
malignant during typhus, [549],
throat-distemper of 1743, [693]
Ryan, Dennis, dysentery in transports, [784]
St Andrews, smallpox in 1818, [575],
dysentery in 1736, [778]
St Kilda, strangers’ cold, [431]
Salford, infantile diarrhoea, [761-2], [765] note,
cholera of 1832, [828]
Salisbury, smallpox in 18th cent., [528],
cholera in 1832, [829],
in 1849, [847]
Sanderson, J. B., diphtheritic membrane, [740] note
Sauvages, F. B. de, his nosology, [670], [678]
Scarlatina and diphtheria, 18th cent., [678],
simplex of Sydenham, [680],
of Sibbald, [681],
perhaps epidemic roseola, [681] note,
Morton’s view of, [682],
anginosa at Edinburgh, [684],
at Plymouth, [684],
popular name of epidemic sore-throat, [687], [697], [701],
Cotton’s name for epidemic sore-throat in 1748, [698],
called miliary, [688], [703],
diagnosis from anomalous measles, [649], [705],
mild at Ipswich in 1771, [708],
anginosa in London in, 1777 [708],
Withering on, [711],
Heberden on, [712] note,
Willan’s statistics 1786, [714],
Rumsey on, [715],
epidemic period 1796-1805, [719],
mildness of type 1805-31, [722-5],
modern statistics of, [726],
incidence on age and sex, [729],
range of fatality, [730],
fatalities at home and in hospital, [730],
alleged influence of drought, [731],
maximum in late autumn, [731],
question of miasma, [732],
uncertainty of its contagion, [733],
in children’s hospitals, [733],
from cows’ milk, [734],
as a septic disease, [735]
Schacht, Lucas, fevers of Leyden, [332]
Schultz, Simon, buying the smallpox, [473]
Scurvy, supposed prevalence of on land in 17th cent., [1], [317], [319]
Sedgley, cholera of 1832, [825]
Seven ill years, fevers of in Scotland, [47-52]
Sewerage of London [858],
of Lancashire towns, [209],
defects of in new mining townships, [220], [845]
Shapter, Thomas, influenza contagious, [387],
Exeter, cholera in 1832, [829]
Sharkey, Edmond, Asiatic cholera in 1837 at Berehaven, [834] note
Sheffield, vital statistics of 17th cent., [58],
epidemic sore-throat 18th cent., [696], [704],
diarrhoea during cholera, [842] note,
cholera in 1849, [848]
Ships, cholera in, [826], [857],
fever in, see [Navy],
influenza in, [425-31]
Short, Thomas, scarlatina in 1759, [704]
Sibbald, Sir Robert, diseases of Scots 17th cent., [48],
bleeding in smallpox, [447],
scarlatina, [681]
Simon, Sir John, inquiry on diphtheria, [739],
general principles of sanitation, [834],
report on Newcastle cholera in 1853, [849]
Simple continued fever, a common form in the epidemic of 1817-19, [168-174],
relation of to relapsing fever, [177], [272],
in London 1826-28, [182],
in Bristol, [189] note, [176],
recent statistics of, [212], [216], [296]
Simpson, Sir J. Y., cholera of 1832, [815] note
Simpson, William, choleraic season of 1678, [333]
Sims, James, London typhus in 1786, [138],
Tyrone fevers 18th cent., [127], [246],
smallpox, [543],
London scarlatina in 1786, [713],
in 1798, [719]
Skibbereen, dysentery in 1826, [273],
exports of food from, [280],
sicknesses of the great famine, [286], [287], [288]
Slatholm, Dr, against blooding and cooling in smallpox, [447],
smallpox transferred to a sheep, [475]
Sligo, cholera of 1832, [818]
Sloane, Sir Hans, Jamaica earthquakes, [415],
procures account of inoculation, [465],
advises the king on same, [469]
Smallpox, references to before 1660, [434],
after the Restoration, [437],
alleged increase of fatality, [439],
alleged mildness in infants, [441],
largely a disease of adults in 17th cent., [443],
the cooling regimen in, [445],
Morton on the causes of a severe type, [451],
marks of a recent epidemic visible, [454],
estimate of the numbers marked by in 17th cent., [455],
London deaths by from 1661 to 1700, [456],
in the country at end of 17th cent., [458],
death of Queen Mary from haemorrhagic form of, [458],
epidemic in 1710, [461],
a trouble in great houses, [462],
houses for, kept by nurses, [463],
at Boston, New England, in 1721, [485], [626],
at Charleston, [490],
hospital in London for, [505],
at Blandford, [513],
in the Foundling Hospital, [514],
table of epidemics of from 1721 to 1729, [518],
at Hertford in 1721, [519],
at Plymouth in 1724, [520],
at Aynho, [520],
at Hastings, [521],
at Nottingham, [522],
at Edinburgh 18th cent., [523],
at Northampton, [524],
at Boston, [525], [540],
at Kilmarnock, [526],
intervals between epidemics of, [527],
various epidemics 1751-53, [529],
London deaths 1721-60, [531],
weekly deaths in 1752, [532],
among London infants, [533],
London deaths 1761-1800, [535],
18th cent. statistics of Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Carlisle and Glasgow, [536-40],
in parishes of Scotland 18th cent., [541],
in Ireland, [543],
in the army and navy, [543],
wide range of fatality, [544],
comparison of epidemics at Chester and Warrington, [550],
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, [629]
Smollett, Tobias, sick bay of the ‘Cumberland,’ [107] note
Snow, John, water-borne cholera, [852], [854]
Southampton, a 17th cent, autopsy at, [316]
Spalding, diphtheria, [739], [740]
Spelman, Sir Henry, on burials, [37]
Spotted fever in 17th and 18th cent., [13],
universal in 1623, [31],
cases in Archbishop’s family, [64],
Arbuthnot on, [67],
return of after 1831, [188], [277]
Stark, James, sex-fatality in whooping-cough, [672] note
Stewart, Frances, her beauty after smallpox, [453]
Stokes, William, Dublin enteric fever in 1826, [187] note
Story, Rev. George, camp sickness at Dundalk, [230-2]
Stow, John, irregular building of London out-parishes, [85-6]
Strabane, a congested district in 1817, [253],
fever and dysentery in, [259-60], [263],
smallpox in 1817, [573]
Stranraer, smallpox in 1829, [600]
Streater, Aaron, ague curer, [316]
Streeten, R. J. N., influenza of 1837, [387] note
Strother, Edward, London fevers of 1727-29, [68-70]
Stroud, tests of cowpox at, [565]
Sturges, Octavius, whooping-cough mimetic, [677]
Sudell, Nicholas, ague curer, [317]
Sunderland, recent typhus in, [214], [217],
cholera begins at, in 1831, [796]
Surfeit, meaning of, [775]
Sutherland, John, reports on cholera of 1848-49, [837-8], [840]
Sutton, Daniel, his method of inoculation, [498]
Sweat, the, late reference to by Shakespeare, [311] note
Sweden, early statistics of whooping-cough, [670]
Swift, Jonathan, urgent for quarantine, [58] note,
the stinks in his London lodging, [87],
state of Ireland in 1729, [238],
on an ague curer, [325]
Sydenham, 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, [776]
Symonds, John Addington, Bristol cholera in 1832, [828]
Tain, cholera in 1832, [814]
Talbor, Sir Richard, ague curer, [318],
his use of bark, [319], [322]
Tar-water, in fever, [242],
in smallpox, [546]
Taunton, dysentery in 1837, [790]
Tavistock, cholera in 1849, [847]
Tawton, North, epidemic fever of 1839, [196]
Tees valley, enteric fever in, [221]
Tewkesbury, burial in coffins, [36]
Thackrah, Charles T., Leeds cholera nostras in 1825, [773]
Theydon Bois, cholera in 1865, [857]
Thompson, Theophilus, his ‘Annals of Influenza,’ [360] note
Thomson, John, smallpox of 1817-19, [575-6]
Thoresby, Ralph, on influenza of 1675, [327],
loses his children by smallpox, [458]
Thorne, Richard Thorne, diphtheria from cow’s milk, [745] note
Thorp, Dr, Leeds fevers in 1802, [160]
Throat distemper, see [Scarlatina]
Timoni, Emanuel, first writer on inoculation, [463],
visited by La Motraye, [472] note,
his inoculated daughter dies of smallpox, [488]
Tiverton, fever of 1741, [80]
Torbay, influenza on board ships in, [426]
Torthorwald, 18th cent. fevers, [154],
vital statistics, [542]
Torrington, strange experience of, in the influenza of 1782, [364]
Toynbee, Arnold, the industrial revolution, [145]
Tralee, typhus, [259],
cholera in 1849, [840]
Trallianus, Alexander, dysenteria rheumatica, [782]
Tranent, cholera in 1832, [806]
Transplantation of disease, [474]
Tristan d’Acunha, strangers’ colds, [431]
Tronchin, Theodore, inoculation by blister, [493]
Trotter, Thomas, ship fever, [117],
Northumberland fevers 18th cent., [156] note,
smallpox in the navy, [544]
Turner, John, influenza of 1712, [340]
Tullamore, panic at, from fever of 1817, [262]
Tynemouth, cholera in 1849, [846],
in 1853, [850],
in 1854, [851]
Type, change of, in continued fever, [2], [189], [203], [277],
in scarlatina, [724], [730]
Typhoid fever see [Enteric]
Typhus, see also [Simple Continued], [Nervous], [Putrid], [Miliary], [Pestilential], [War], [Gaol], [Ship] and [Workhouse] fevers.
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],
or synochus at 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], [156] note,
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, [154] note,
epidemic of 1799-1802, [160],
in Ireland, [248],
epidemic of in fiction in 1811, [162] note,
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], [839] note,
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, [296]
Tyrone, over-population in, [254],
effects of the famine of 1817-19, [264]
Ulverston, smallpox in 1816, [573]
Uxbridge, measles in 1801, [649]
Vaccinal Syphilis, real nature of, [562] note
Vaccination, 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, 1825 [595],
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, [611-3]
see also [Cowpox]
Vagrancy in Irish famines, [244], [261], [267]
“Variolae Vaccinae,” figurative name of cowpox, [563]
Ventilation of gaols, [94],
of ships, [118].
See also [Window-tax].
Verdier, Jean, vaccination incorrect in principle, [587]
Vibrios in cholera, [827] note
Virchow, Rudolph, dysentery and typhus, [108] note,
season of epidemic typhoid in Berlin, [217]
Voltaire, M. de, his mythical account of inoculation in Circassia, [473] note
Wagstaffe, William, objects to inoculation, [478], [607]
Wakefield, dysentery in asylum, [787]
Wakley, James, carries Bill against inoculation, [607]
Walker, George A., London graveyards, [87]
Walker, John, “vaccinates” with smallpox, [590]
Walker, Patrick, sickness in the seven ill years, [50],
epidemic agues in Scotland, [341]
Wall, John, fever of 1741, [83],
epidemic sore-throat of 1748, [701-2],
relation of same to murrain, [736] note
Wall, Martin, Oxford typhus in 1785, [153]
Walpole, Horace, on middle-class comfort, [60],
suffers from nervous fever, [71] note,
influenza of 1743, [350],
horse-cold of 1760, [355],
deaths by sore-throat in 1760, [703]
War typhus at Chester in 1716, [60],
at Feckenheim in 1743, [108],
in 1746, [109],
at Paderborn in 1761, [110],
from Peninsular War, [166]
Ward, T. Ogier, Wolverhampton cholera, [825]
Ware, inoculation after an epidemic, [511]
Warren, Dr, of Boston, two forms of influenza in successive seasons, [398] note
Warren, H., scarlatina anginosa in Barbados 1736, [684]
Warrington, fevers at in 1773, [148],
smallpox in 1773, [537], [553],
comparison of with Chester as regards infant mortality, [551-5],
cholera of 1832, [829] note
Water from reservoirs, a source of enteric fever, [220] note, [221], and note, [222] note,
a source of cholera, [832], [848],
at Newcastle in 1853, [550],
in London, [853], [859]
Water from wells, a source of enteric fever, [219] note,
source of dysentery, [791],
source of cholera, [848],
the Broad St pump, [854],
Theydon Bois, [857]
Water in 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, [861]
Waterford, fever hospital founded in 1799, [249],
statistics of fever 1817-19, [266]
Watson, Sir Thomas, epidemic fever of 1837-39 all typhus, [194],
“threw the agy off his stomach,” [318] note,
cause of intestinal irritation in scarlatina, [697] note,
rarity of dysentery, [790]
Watson, 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, [779]
Watt, 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,” [758] note
Watts, Giles, mildness of Sutton’s inoculation, [499]
Webster, 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., [719] note
West, Charles, nature of infantile remittent fever, [5],
exanthematic typhus, [189],
no enteric cases in 1837-8, [194]
West Ham, diphtheria, [742]
Wharekauri, strangers’ cold, [432]
Whitaker, Tobias, smallpox more fatal after the Restoration, [439],
blooding in smallpox, [447],
prevention of pock-pits, [456]
White, J., fevers in the navy 17th cent., [104]
White, William, public health of York improves, [63]
Whitehaven, 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, [829]
Whitmore, H., influenzas and agues of 1658-9, [313], [362],
opposes blooding in influenza, [381] note
Whooping-cough called “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, [677]
Whytt, Robert, influenza of 1758, [353],
smallpox fatal in 1758, [547]
Wick, cholera of 1832, [815]
Wilde, Sir W. R., census of Ireland after the famine, [292]
Willan, 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, [785]
Williams, Robert, on 17th cent. agues and dysenteries in London, [304] note,
electrical theory of influenza, [406] note
Willis, 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, [776]
Wilson, Andrew, bilious colic, [771] note,
Newcastle dysentery, [780]
Window-tax, effects of on health, [88],
history of, [88]
Wintringham, Clifton, typhus in Yorkshire in 1718, [63],
nervous fevers, [72], [73],
agues, [341],
influenza of 1729, [345],
measles, [642],
angina and miliary fever, [683]
Withering, William, describes scarlatina anginosa in 1778, [710-12]
Witney, fever in 1818, [170]
Wolverhampton, cholera in 1832, [825],
in 1849, [845]
Woodward, John, treatment of smallpox, [449]
Woodville, William, history of the Inoculation Hospital, [505],
value of inoculation, [516],
recent vaccination does not keep off smallpox, [565]
Worcester, gaol typhus, [153],
epidemic sore-throat, [701],
infantile diarrhoea, [765-6]
Workhouses fever in English, [47], [79], [126], [137], [154], [168];
established in Ireland, [267],
fever in, [286], [289], [293]
Wordsworth, William, distress of 1794, [156]
Worm fever, [7], [75], [111], [247]
Worthing, enteric fever in 1893, [220]
Yellow fever in the navy, 17th cent., [102]
York, improved public health 18th cent., [63]
Youghal, cholera in 1837, [835] note
Young, Arthur, prices and wages in 1801, [159],
potatoes in Ireland, [252],
potatoes as the English staple food, [284],
Warrington industry, [551]
Ystradyfodwg, enteric fever, [220]