[222] Charles Bisset, Essay on the Medical Constitution of Great Britain, 1 Jan. 1758, to Midsummer, 1760. Together with a narrative of the Throat-Distemper and the Miliary Fever which were epidemical in the Duchy of Cleveland in 1760. London, 1762, pp. 265, 270, &c.
[223] James Sims, M.D., Obs. on Epid. Disorders. Lond. 1773, p. 181.
[224] W. Hillary, M.D., Changes of the Air and Concomitant Epid. Disorders in Barbadoes. 2nd ed., Lond. 1766.
[225] Tractatus duplex de Praxeos Regulis et de Febre Miliari, Lond. 1710. Engl. transl. of the latter, Lond. 1737.
[226] Ormerod, Clin. Obs. on Continued Fever. London, 1848.
[227] Historia Febris Miliaris, et de Hemicrania Dissertatio. Auctore Joanne Fordyce, M.D., Londini, 1758. Symptoms at p. 16. In an Appendix Dr Balguy makes the following curious division of the miliary vesicles: the white in malignant continued fever, the dull red in remittent fever, the “almost efflorescent” in intermittent. Fordyce makes them to appear as early as the third day, and to begin to disappear in four or six days in favourable cases.
[228] London, 1773, p. 9. See also Sir W. Fordyce’s essay of the same year.
[229] John Moore, M.D., Medical Sketches, Lond. 1786. Part II. “On Fevers.” Referring to the “putrid” fever in particular, he says that certain unbelievers, of whom he was probably one, “assert that mankind are tenacious of opinions, when once adopted, in proportion as they are extraordinary, disagreeable and incredible.” Dr Moore is best known as the author of Zeluco.
[230] Haygarth, Phil. Trans. LXIV. 73.
[231] Percival, ibid. LXIV. 59.