[190]. Typhus cum flavedine Cutis of Cullen. Typhus Icterodes of Sauvages.
[191]. The chief authorities on the side of its contagious nature are An Essay on the Malignant Pestilential Fever introduced into the West India Islands from Boulam, by Dr. C. Chisholm. London 1795. Medical Sketches, by Sir James Macgregor. London 1804. The Report of the French Commissioners at Cadiz, in 1804. And the Works of Sir James Fellows, Dr. Caillot, and Dr. Arejula of Cadiz. Much valuable matter is also contained in a Treatise by Dr. Pym, Inspector of Hospitals. London 1818. To which may be added The Travels of Don Antonio Ulloa and Don Jorge Juan.
[192]. Rush on Yellow Fever.
[193]. An Essay on the Disease called Yellow Fever, by Edward Nathaniel Bancroft, M.D. &c. London 1811.
[194]. In the year 1817 Dr. Bancroft published a Sequel to his work, in order to shew that the Bulam Fever has no existence as a distinct or contagious disease. This malady Dr. Chisholm supposed to be a peculiar, original, and foreign pestilence, and to have been imported from Bulam, on the coast of Africa, by the ship Hankey, to the island of Grenada; an opinion which received the support of Dr. Pym.
[195]. Medical Logic Edit. 2. p. 219.
[196]. Sporadic.—An epithet used in opposition to that of Epidemic, and is given to such diseases as have some special or particular cause, and are dispersed here and there, affecting only particular constitutions, ages, &c. σποραδικος, from σπορας, dispersed, of σπείρω I strew.
[197]. The most remarkable of these Epidemics on record, are, that of 1647 in Barbadoes; that of 1686 in Martinique; that in the Spanish Main, in 1729, and 1740; and the most general and destructive of all, which broke out at Grenada in the month of March, in 1793, which spread rapidly to the whole Carribean Archipelago, and from thence to North America, and the shores of Europe. The most remarkable, and perhaps the only instances on record of its existence in North America, are that of Boston in 1693, on the arrival of a squadron of English ships of war from the West Indies; that in Carolina, in the years 1732, 1739, 1745, and 1748, all which, by the account of the physicians who describe it, could be traced to importations from the sugar colonies; that of Philadelphia, in 1751 and 1762; and that above-mentioned in 1793. It now remains to give the history of it as it appeared in Europe. It may be chronologically stated as follows: at Lisbon, in 1723; at Cadiz, in 1732, 1733, 1744, 1746, 1764, 1800; at Malaga, in 1741 and 1803; at Gibralter, in 1804. It has since appeared at different times in these cities, as well as at Carthagena, Alicant, and Leghorn. Extracted from Sir Gilbert Blane’s work.
[198]. Remarks on the Epidemic Yellow Fever which has appeared at intervals in the South Coasts of Spain, since the year 1800, by Robert Jackson, M.D. 8vo. London, 1821.
[199]. It is probable that the Fomites of Plague are never extinct in Turkey, although various circumstances may render it Sporadic, or entirely dormant.