[386] Christison, “On the Changes which have taken place in the Constitution of Fevers and Inflammations in Edinburgh during the last forty years.” Paper read at Med. Chir. Soc. Edin. 4 March, 1857. Edin. Med. Journ. Jan. 1858, p. 577.
[387] Continued Fevers, under the head of “Typhus,” p. 47.
[388] See especially John Rose Cormack, M.D., Natural History, Pathology and Treatment of the Epidemic Fever at present prevailing in Edinburgh and other towns. Lond. 1843; and the papers by Wardell, Lond. Med. Gaz. N. S. II-V.
[389] Dr Betty, of Lowtherstown, Fermanagh, Dubl. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. VII. 125.
[390] Murchison says that the enteric fever of the end of 1846 was prevalent at many places in England where the epidemic of typhus never made its appearance, and that in Edinburgh (according to an unpublished essay by Waters) most of the enteric cases not only occurred prior to the outbreak of the epidemic of Irish fever, but came from localities in the neighbouring country and from the best houses of the New Town—not from the crowded courts of the Old Town, to which the later epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever was restricted. Murchison, u. s. p. 49. The following papers relate to the autumnal typhoid of 1846 in England: Sibson, “Fever at Nottingham and neighbourhood in Summer and Autumn of 1846,” Med. Gaz. XXXIX.; Taylor, “Fever at Old and New Lenton in 1846,” Med. Times, XV. 159 and Med. Gaz. XXXVIII. 127; Turner, “Fever at Minchinhampton in Autumn 1846,” Med. Gaz. XLII. 157; Brenchley, “Fever in Berkshire in 1846,” Med. Gaz. XXXVIII. 1082; Bree, “Epidemic Fever at Great Finborough in Autumn of 1846,” Prov. Med. and Surg. Journ. 1847, p. 676.
[391] In the Report of the Registrar-General for the year 1847.
[392] This was the occasion which furnished Father Newman with a famous argument for the bona fides of his co-religionists: “The Irish fever cut off between Liverpool and Leeds thirty priests and more young men in the flower of their days, old men who seemed entitled to some quiet time after their long toil. There was a bishop cut off in the North; but what had a man of his ecclesiastical rank to do with the drudgery and danger of sick calls, except that Christian faith and charity constrained him?” John Henry Newman, D.D., History of My Religious Opinions, London, 1865, p. 272.
[393] Leigh, in Report Reg.-Gen. for 1847, X. p. xx.
[394] H. M. Hughes, “On the Continued Fever at present existing in the southern districts of the metropolis,” Lond. Med. Gaz. Nov. 1847; Laycock, “Unusual prevalence of Fever at York,” Lond. Med. Gaz. Nov. 1847; Bottomley, “Notes on the Famine Fever at Croydon in 1847,” Prov. Med. and Surg. Journ. 1847; Ormerod, Clinical Observations on Continued Fever at Bartholomew’s Hospital, Lond. 1848; Art. in Brit. and For. Med. Chir. Rev. 1848, I. 285; Duncan, Journ. Pub. Health, I. 200 (Liverpool); Paxton, Prov. Med. Journ. 1847, pp. 533, 596 (Rugby).
[395] The following papers relate to the epidemic in Scotland in 1847: Orr, “Historical and Statistical Sketch of the progress of Epidemic Fever in Glasgow during 1847,” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. LXIX.; Stark, “On the Mortality of Edinburgh and Leith for 1847,” Ibid. and LXXI.; R. Paterson, “Account of the Epidemic Fever of 1847-8” in Edinburgh, Ibid. LXX.; W. Robertson, “Notes on the Epidemic Fever of 1847-8,” Month. Journ. of Med. Sc. IX. 368; J. C. Steele, “View of the Sickness and Mortality in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary during 1847,” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. LXX.; J. C. Steele, “Statistics of the Glasgow Infirmary for 1848,” Ibid. LXXII. 241; J. Paterson, “Statistics of the Barony Parish Fever Hospital of Glasgow in 1847-8,” Ibid. LXX. 357.