[624] John Arbuthnot, M.D., Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies. London, 1733, p. 193. His remarks upon the “hysteric” maladies that were common after the wave of influenza in Jan.-Feb. 1733, are referred to in the chapter on Continued Fevers, along with the corresponding information from Hillary, of Ripon.
[625] Gent. Magaz. 1733, Jan. p. 43.
[626] Huxham, Obs. de aere et morbis epidemicis, 1728-52, Plymuthi factae.
[627] De Aere, &c. pp. 3, 136-8.
[628] Rutty, Chronol. Hist. of Diseases in Dublin. Lond. 1770.
[629] Pringle, Diseases of the Army, p. 16.
[630] Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Cunningham, I. 235.
[631] Gent. Magaz. XIII. May 1743, p. 272.
[632] R. Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, III. 610.
[633] Rutty, u. s. under the year 1743. In an earlier passage, he says that the influenza of 1743 raised the Dublin weekly bills to a highest point of 67, so that it must have been very slight in that city.