[117] Brand, History of Newcastle, ii. 517, says that the magistrates of that town made a collection for the relief of poor housekeepers in the remarkably severe winter of 1728-29, the sum raised being £362. 18s.
[118] Tooke, History of Prices from 1793 to 1837. Introd. chap. p. 40.
[119] Ancient Physician’s Legacy. Lond. 1733, p. 144.
[120] “In the year 1727,” says Hillary, “I ordered several persons to lose 120 to 140 ounces of blood at several times in these inflammatory distempers, with great relief and success; whereas, in this winter [1728] I met with few, and even the strong and robust, who could bear the loss of above 40 or 50 ounces of blood, at three or four times; but, in general, most of the sick could not bear bleeding oftener than twice, and then not to exceed 30 or 34 oz. at most, at two or three times; and especially those who had been afflicted with, and debilitated by, the intermitting fever in the autumn before,—these could not bear blooding oftener than once, or twice at most, and in very small quantities too, though the acuteness of the pain, and the other symptoms in all, seemed at first to indicate much larger evacuations that way; but the first bleeding often sunk the pulse and strength of the patient so much that I durst not repeat it more than once, and in some not at all.” Hillary, u. s. p. 26.
[121] Edin. Med. Essays and Obs. I-VI. This annual publication was the original of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[122] Ibid. I. 40; II. 27; II. 287 (St Clair’s case); IV.
[123] Huxham, De aere et morbis.
[124] Ebenezer Gilchrist, M.D., “Essay on Nervous Fevers.” Edin. Med. Essays and Obs. IV. 347, and VI. (or V. pt. 2), p. 505.
[125] Ibid. V. pt. 1, p. 30.
[126] Obs. de aere et morbis; also his essay On Fevers.