[8] “Itaque ventrem inferiorem primo aperiens, viscera omnia in eo contenta satis sana et sarte tecta inveni”—the small intestine being telescoped in several places.
[9] Elsewhere he says the first case of the series was “circa solstitium hyemale anno 1655.”
[10] De Febribus, chapter “De febribus pestilentibus.”
[11] Treatise on the Infantile Remittent Fever. London, 1782.
[12] Pyretologia, 2 vols. Lond. 1692-94, i. 68, at the end of “Synopsis Febrium”:—“Febris verminosa, quae nulli e specibus memoratis praecisé determinari potest.”
[13] Häser gives a reference to an essay in which Willis’s fever of 1661 is compared to enteric fever: C. M. W. Rietschel, Epidemia anni 1661 a Willisio et febris nervosa lenta ab Huxhamio descriptae, etc. cum typho abdominali nostro tempore obvio comparantur. Lips. 1861. Not having found this essay, I cannot say on what grounds the comparison is made.
[14] Lives of the Norths. New ed. by Jessopp. 3 vols. 1890, iii. 8, 21.
[15] Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S., 1641-1706, under the date of 18 Sept.
[16] Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., 1659-69.
[17] An analysis of the four Hippocratic constitutions, with modern illustrative cases, is given by Alfred Haviland, Climate, Weather, and Disease. London, 1855.