[1237] Obs. Med. 3rd ed. Bk. IV. chap. V. § 8; Epist. Respons. I. § 42.
[1238] Mary Barker at Hambleton, to Abel Barker at the Dog and Ball in Fleet Street. Hist. MSS. Commis. V. 398.
[1239] Tractatus de morbis acutis infantum. Lond. 1689. Englished by W. Cockburn, M.D. London, 1693, pp. 38, 78, 87.
[1240] Gent. Magaz. 1751, pp. 195, 578.
[1241] Treatise on Chincough. Glasgow, 1813.
[1242] Vierordt, Physiologie des Kindesalters, Tübingen, 1877, p. 82, without adducing evidence that the larynx is congenitally different in the two sexes (a matter of very nice measurements which even Beneke does not appear to have attempted), says that the development of the posterior glottidean space has advanced before puberty much more in boys than in girls. Stark, a former Superintendent of Statistics for Scotland (Rep. Reg. Gen. Scot. for 1856, p. xxxviii), has raised the question thus: “The causes of this greater liability of the female sex to death while suffering from whooping-cough are worthy of being investigated. So far as one’s own limited experience goes, it would appear to be produced by the greater tendency which the female sex exhibits to have fits or convulsions when attacked by a paroxysm or fit of coughing in that disease.”
[1243] Changes in the Air, &c. ... in Barbadoes. Lond. 1760.
[1244] In the Irish Decennial Summary for 1871-80 (Suppl. to 17th Report of Reg.-Gen. Ireland, 1884) it is said: “A general relation has been noticed by many observers between the prevalence of whooping-cough and measles, and there is no doubt that in many localities an epidemic of measles is frequently accompanied by or followed by a prevalence of whooping-cough. A comparison of the figures in Table XV. does not point to any very close relationship. Whooping-cough was a much more fatal disease than measles, but it is more than probable that measles was equally prevalent.”
[1245] Illustrations of Unconscious Memory in Disease. London, 1886 [1885]. Chapter VI. pp. 64-83.
[1246] Med. Times and Gaz. 1885, II. p. 6.