[504] It is a doctrine of economics that the higher standard of living checks population. Thus Marshall says of England: “The growth of population was checked by that rise in the standard of comfort which took effect in the general adoption of wheat as the staple food of Englishmen during the first half of the 18th century.” Economics, p. 230.
[505] Vol. VII. (1849) pp. 64-126, 340-404, and Vol. VIII. pp. 1-86, 270-339 of the Dublin Quart. Journ. of Medical Science, N. S. contain numerous reports collected by the editors from all parts of Ireland, and published either in abstract or in full. These are the chief medical sources. Some particulars are given also in the Dublin Med. Press, 1846 to 1849 in several papers on dysentery.
[506] John Popham, M.D., Dub. Quart. Journ. Med. Sc. N. S. VIII. 279.
[507] Cited by Dr Jones Lamprey, Dub. Quart. Journ. VII. 101.
[508] Lamprey, Dub. Quart. Journ. VII. 101.
[509] O’Rourke.
[510] Ormsbey, Dub. Quart. Journ. VII. 382.
[511] Pemberton, ibid. VII. 369.
[512] Lalor, u. s.
[513] This epidemic called forth two pamphlets on the relation of famine to fever, one by Dominic Corrigan, M.D., On Famine and Fever as Cause and Effect in Ireland (“no famine, no fever”), and a reply to it by H. Kennedy, M.D., On the Connexion of Famine and Fever.