[511] Best in Rayer, p. 421. Not so well in Ozanam, T. iii. p. 105. The writers are very numerous.
[512] Rayer, Mazet, Bally, François, Pariset, and many others.
[513] Bally and François, in the Journal Général de Médecine, T. LXXVII. p. 204. Compare Foderé, T. III. p. 227. Ozanam, T. III. p. 116. Rayer, Suette, p. 148. Mal. d. l. p. T. I. p. 320.
[514] We may add to them also those observed in the south of Germany, in the œtiology of which Schönlein lays much stress on the contamination of the air in the process of steeping hemp. Vorlesungen, II. p. 324.
[515] It is not complete, but may render apparent the power and extent of the disease. See Rayer, Suette, p. 465.
[516] At that time inhabited by about two hundred and fifty country people. Sinner, p. 7.
[517] Dr. Thein, government physician of the town of Aub.
[518] The whole number of cases and of deaths is not stated. Dr. Sinner found nine bodies, none of which had been opened, shortly before the cessation of the disease.
[519] Everything heating was avoided; the air was cautiously purified, cooling beverage was given, and contrary to the method of Brown, at that time in vogue, few medicines, such as valerian, spirits of hartshorn, Hoffman’s drops, &c., were employed. Blisters were of service, and likewise, under some circumstances, camphor. The convalescents were well nourished.
[520] Those works only which have been consulted by the author himself are here enumerated.