[983] History of Inoculation in Britain. Vol. I. London, 1796, p. 33.
[984] History of Edinburgh. Edin. 1779, p. 260.
[985] W. Hillary, Rational and mechanical Essay on the Smallpox. Lond. 1735.
[986] J. Barker, The Nature of Inoculation explained and its Merits stated. London, 1769, p. 33. He taught that a depraved habit, by ill diet, &c., “serves for a nidus wherein the variolous matter rests.” If the variolous matter to be expelled is small, “by reason of natural health, temperance, or the power of preparation,” the disease is of the distinct kind; when large, of the confluent. “And wise indeed must he be who can find out any laws respecting the reception and expulsion of diseases superior on the whole to those which are original.” p. 9.
[987] “I have taken an account in this town [Halifax], and some parts of the country, and have procured the same from several other towns hereabouts, where the smallpox has been epidemical this last year, with as much exactness as was possible.” Phil. Trans. XXXII. 211.
[988] “A small neighbouring market town.”
[989] “More than usually mortal.”
[990] “A small market town in Lancashire, including two neighbouring villages.”
[991] Account taken “by a person of credit” and sent to Dr Whitaker. Jurin says, more generally: “Taken in several places by a careful enquiry from house to house.” Account, &c. 1724, p. 7.
[992] “At Uxbridge and in the neighbourhood, the smallpox having been exceedingly fatal all thereabouts.”