[37] Thomas Short, M.D. of Sheffield, New Observations on City, Town and Country Bills of Mortality. London, 1750.
[38] Freind (Nine Commentaries upon Fever, &c., engl. by Dale, Lond. 1730, p. 4) has the following general criticism upon Sydenham’s varying constitutions of fevers: “I believe also I may truly affirm that those very fevers which Sydenham explains as distinct species, according to the various temperature of the seasons, do not differ much from one another. For, if perhaps you should except the Petechiae, they differ rather in degree than in kind. There hardly ever appeared a fever in any season where the signs so constantly answered one another, that those which you found collected in one person should unite after the same manner in another; however upon this account you would not deny their labouring under the same distemper.”
[39] Tractatus de Podagra, § 35. Greenhill’s edition, p. 428.
[40] Chronicle of Perth (Maitland Club) under date 14 Oct. 1621.
[41] Thorold Rogers, Hist. of Agric. and Prices, sub anno.
[42] Extracts from Kirk Session Records. Spalding Club, 1846.
[43] Chronicle of Perth.
[44] History of the Burgh of Dumfries. By W. MacDowall. 2nd ed. Edin. 1873, p. 381.
[45] Court and Times of James I., ii. 331.
[46] Ibid., under date 25 Oct. 1423.