[1197] Monthly reports in the Gentleman’s Magazine, under the dates.
[1198] Heberden’s paper on measles in Trans. Col. Phys. III. (1785), pp. 389, 395.
[1199] W. Black, M.D., Obs. Med. and Political on the Smallpox, &c. London, 1781, p. 207: “Few escape measles in infancy or childhood, and as we find one-tenth fewer to die of measles than of smallpox, etc.... In their future consequences, measles, especially in cities, are not without hazard, and are not unfrequently followed by hecticks.”
[1200] Percival, in Med. Obs. and Inquiries, V. (1776), p. 282.
[1201] Omitting the year 1760.
[1202] Compiled from the tables in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1742-57. All Saints parish contained more than half the population.
[1203] Pearce, writing from St Croix, West Indies, 12 Oct. 1782, to Lettsom (Memoirs, III. 429), says the measles had been “very rife and fatal” there.
[1204] MS. Apothecary’s Books at the Foundling Hospital.
[1205] R. Willan, M.D., On Cutaneous Diseases. Vol. I. 1808, p. 244.
[1206] Heysham, u. s., p. 538.