[107] Bernard de Mandeville, M.D., A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysteric Diseases, 3rd ed. 1730, 1st ed. 1711. It contains nothing about the “little fever.”
[108] Richard Blackmore, M.D., A Discourse upon the Plague, with a prefatory account of Malignant Fever. London, 1721, p. 17.
[109] W. Cockburn, M.D., Danger of improving Physick, with a brief account of the present Epidemick Fever. London, 1730.
[110] I am the more persuaded of the identity with relapsing fever of much that was called remittent in Britain, and even intermittent, after reading the highly original treatise by R. T. Lyons on Relapsing or Famine Fever, London, 1872, relating to the epidemics of it in India.
[111] Huxham, On Fevers, chap. VIII.
[112] Murchison, Continued Fevers of Great Britain, 2nd ed. Lond. 1873, p. 423.
[113] Sir Richard Manningham, Kt., M.D. Febricula or Little Fever, commonly called the Nervous or Hysteric Fever, the Fever on the Spirits, Vapours, Hypo, or Spleen. 1746.
[114] It is clear that the nervous fever established itself as a distinct type in England in the earlier part of the 18th century, both in medical opinion and in common acceptation: thus Horace Walpole, writing from Arlington Street on 28 January, 1760, says: “I have had a nervous fever these six or seven weeks every night, and have taken bark enough to have made a rind for Daphne: nay, have even stayed at home two days.” Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Cunningham, iii. 281.
[115] Commentar. Nosol. u. s.
[116] William Hillary, M.D., “An Account of the principal variations of the Weather and the concomitant Epidemical Diseases from 1726 to 1734 at Ripon.” App. to Essay on the Smallpox, Lond. 1740.