[476] William Harty, M.D., Historic Sketch of the Contagious Fever Epidemic in Ireland during 1817-19. Dublin, 1820. This work contains information collected by a circular of queries addressed to practitioners in the several provinces. It was undertaken by Dr Harty at the instance of Sir John Newport, M.P. for Waterford. The work by Barker and Cheyne on the same epidemic took longer to prepare, having been published in 1821. See also Cheyne, Dubl. Hosp. Rep. II. 1-147.
[477] Barker and Cheyne, p. 65. A similar incident comes into Carleton’s tale of ‘The Clarionet’: “At length, out of compassion, the few neighbours who feared not to attend a feverish death-bed, acting on the popular belief that children under a certain age are not liable to catch a fever, placed the boy in her arms.” This popular belief was well founded.
[478] Accounts from various places in Barker and Cheyne, and in Harty. Rogan (u. s. p. 45) says: “The cases of typhus gravior were infinitely more numerous among the rich and well-fed than among the poor; and with them also the head was most frequently the seat of diseased action.”
[479] Report on the Present State of the Distressed District in the South of Ireland: with an Enquiry into the Causes of the Distresses of the Peasantry and Farmers. Dublin, 1822.
[480] Lachrymae Hiberniae, or the Grievances of the Peasantry of Ireland, especially in the Western Counties. By a Resident Native. Dublin, 1822 (September). The author, a resident of the west coast, was concerned in the distribution of relief, and positively asserts the saving of thousands “from his own personal knowledge.”
[481] Robert James Graves, M.D., “Report on the Fever lately prevalent in Galway and the West of Ireland.” Trans. K. and Q. Col. Phys. IV. (1824), p. 408.
[482] John O’Brien, M.D., “On the Epidemic Dysentery which prevailed in Dublin in the year 1825.” Trans. K. and Q. Col. Phys. V. (1828) p. 221; Burke, Ed. Med. Surg. Journ. July, 1826, p. 56; Speer, Med. Phys. Journ. N. S. VI. 199.
[483] John O’Brien, “Med. Rep. of the H. of Recovery, Cork Street, Dublin, for the year ending 4 Jan. 1827.” Trans. K. and Q. Col. Phys. V. 512.
[484] Graves, Clinical Medicine, 1843. Lect. XVIII.
[485] O’Brien, u. s.