[316] Adam Hunter, u. s.
[317] T. Barnes, Edin. Med. Surg. Journ., April, 1819.
[318] H. Edmonston, ibid. XIV. (1818), p. 71.
[319] T. McWhirter, ibid. April, 1819, p. 317.
[320] J. C. Prichard, M.D., History of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed in Bristol, 1817-19. Lond. 1820.
[321] Obs. on the Cure and Prevention of the Contagious Fever now in Edinburgh. Edin. 1818.
[322] Edin. Med. Surg. Journ. XVI. 146.
[323] Benj. Welsh, Efficacy of Bloodletting in the Epidemic Fever of Edinburgh. Edin. 1819.
[324] Life of Sir Robert Christison, Edin. 1885, I. 142:—“I had been scarcely three weeks at my post in the fever hospital when I was attacked suddenly—so suddenly, that in half-an-hour I was utterly helpless from prostration. I had nearly six days of the primary attack, then a week of comfort, repose and feebleness, and next the secondary attack, or relapse, for three days more. My pulse rose to 160, and continued hard and incompressible even at that rate. My temperature under the tongue was 107° &c.” He was bled to 30 oz. and next day to 20 oz. more. Before the end of the epidemic, in August, 1819, he had another attack of relapsing fever, for which he was bled to 24 oz. and a third, after exposure to chill, the same autumn, which last was a simple five-days’ fever without relapse, also treated by the abstraction of 24 oz. of blood. In 1832 he had two attacks of the same synocha without relapses, and throughout the rest of his life many more: e.g. 16 June, 1861, “I have had something like the relapsing fever of my youth”—a five-days’ fever with a relapse on the 18th day; and again, on 19 March, 1868, “Incomprehensible return of mine ancient enemy.” These experiences coloured Christison’s view of relapsing fever, the so-called relapses being, in his opinion, comparable to the returning paroxysms of ague.
[325] Cleland.