[486] “Remarks on the Epidemic Dysentery of the Autumn of 1826 in the South of Ireland.” By Alexander McCarthy, M.D. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. April, 1827, p. 289.
[487] “It is a melancholy picture of society to witness the increase of wealth and luxury on one side, and the greatest want and wretchedness on the other; to meet famine and exhaustion in the great body of the people, in a country that produces as much food as would afford a full supply for once and a half its present population; to see the granaries full of corn and flour, and the great body of the people scarcely existing on a half supply of bad potatoes. Such is the miserable situation of the Irish, a race of people distinguished for their intellect, and above all for their resignation and patience under afflictions the most trying.”
[488] Dub. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. XI. 385.
[489] W. J. Geary, M.D., “Report of the St John’s Fever and Lock Hospitals.” Dub. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. XI. 378: XII. 94.
[490] Various descriptions of these exist, of which that by Carleton in the tale ‘Barney Branagan,’ is probably not overdone.
[491] The Report of the Roscrea Fever Hospital for 1827 says: “In March, when the dung is being removed from the back yards for the purpose of planting the potatoes, the number of patients becomes double in the Fever Hospital.” Dublin Medical Press, Jan. 1846, p. 235.
[492] Babington, “Epidemic Typhous Fever in Donoughmore.” Dub. Quart. Journ. X. 404.
[493] G. A. Kennedy, “Report of Cork St. Fever Hosp. 1837-38.” Ibid. XIII. 311. Graves, Ibid. XIV. 363.
[494] Lynch, Ibid. N. S. VII. 388, gives some particulars of it also at Loughrea, Galway, in 1840.
[495] System of Clinical Medicine. Dublin, 1843, p. 57. The “change of type,” with special reference to treatment, is discussed more fully in Lecture XXXIV. pp. 492-500. See also Dub. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. XIV. 502, where a letter on the changed character of fever at Sligo is cited.