A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) / From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

by Charles Creighton

[296] T. Bateman, M.D., Reports on the Diseases of London ... from 1804 to 1816. Lond. 1819.

[297] Parl. Committee’s Report on Contag. Fev. 1818, p. 33. Table by P. M. Roget.

[298] Adam Hunter, Ed. Med. Surg. Journ., April, 1819.

[299] Cleland, Glasgow and Clydesdale Statist. Soc. Transactions, Pt. I. Nov. 2, 1836.

[300] Sutton, Account of a Remittent Fever among the Troops in this Climate. Canterbury, 1806.

[301] In the first three months of 1811 a singular fever occurred among working people in part of a suburb of Paisley, one practitioner having 32 cases in 13 families. It was marked by rigors at the onset, pain in the back, headache, dry skin, loaded very red tongue, quick fluttering pulse, watchfulness, delirium-like fatuity, abdominal pain in many, foetid stools, great prostration, gradual recovery after fifteen or sixteen days without manifest crisis, and relapses in some. In this fever Murchison discovers enteric or typhoid. Its limitation to a part of one of the suburbs of Paisley is, of course, in the manner of enteric fever; on the other hand, only one of those 32 cases died, which is a rate of fatality perhaps not unparalleled in typhoid but much more often matched in typhus or relapsing fever of young and old together; while the length of the fever, fifteen or sixteen days or sometimes more, is too great for the abortive kind of enteric and too little for enteric fever completing both its first and second stages. James Muir, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. VIII. 134. Murchison, Continued Fevers, p. 428.

[302] James Clarke, M.D., “Medical Report for Nottingham from March 1807 to March 1808,” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. IV. 422. His account of the unwholesome state of the weavers’ houses is as bad as any of those already given.

[303] McGrigor, “Med. Hist. of British Armies in Peninsula,” Med. Chir. Trans. VI. 381.

[304] Richard Hooper, “Account of the Sick landed from Corunna,” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. V. (1809), p. 398. See also Sir James McGrigor, ibid. VI. 19.

[305] James Johnson, Influence of Tropical Climates, p. 20.