Aberdeen, famine of 1622, 30,
relapsing fever of 1818, 175,
typhus of 1838-40, 189, 192,
relapsing of 1843, 204,
ratio of enteric in 1864, 210,
influenza of 1831, 379 note,
smallpox in 1610, 434,
measles of 1808, 651-2,
putrid sore-throat in 1790, 718,
dysentery near, 784,
cholera in 1832, 815

Aberystruth, cholera in 1849, 845

Ackworth bill of mortality, 528 note

Acland, Sir H. W., cholera at Oxford in 1854, 851 note

Adams, Joseph, cowpox, 559,
liberty for inoculators, 609

Adynamic fever, 182

Ague, etymology of, 225, 301,
name of typhus in Ireland, 301

Agues, epidemic, joined with influenzas, 300,
summary of in 16th and 17th cent., 306-14,
of 1678-80, 329,
in Scotland after the union, 341,
of 1727-29, 341,
of 1780-85, 366,
table of, at Kelso Dispensary, 370,
of 1826-28, 378,
of 1827 in Ireland, 273,
in 1846-47, 391,
in a Somerset village, 393,
no record of, during the influenzas of 1890-94, 397

Aikin, John, Warrington smallpox, 553

Akenside, Mark, dysentery in London 1762, 778,
theory of dysentery and rheumatic fever, 782

Alderson, John, contagion of typhus, 153

Alison, William P., no enteric cases in 1827, 187

Althaus, Julius, nervous sequelae of influenza, 397 note

Amyand, sergeant-surgeon, inoculations by, 469-70

Andrew, John, formal inoculation, 497

Anstruther, enteric fever 1835-39, 199

Arbuthnot, John, malignant fever in London, 67,
pestilent air of cities, 84,
influenza of 1733, 347,
theory of influenza, 402-5

Armagh, smallpox burials at in 1818, 572,
cholera in a hamlet near, 818

Arnot, Hugh, inoculation a complete remedy, 516

Arrott, James, fever at Dundee, 192-3

Astruc, Jean, history of whooping-cough, 666

Asylums, cholera in, 809, 831,
dysentery in, 787, 791

Aubrey, T., miasmata of Guinea Coast the cause of dengue, 424

Aylesbury, gaol typhus, 153

Aynho, statistics of smallpox in 1723, 520

Ayr, dysentery, 787,
cholera of 1832, 814

Ayrshire, cholera at iron-works, 837


Baillou, G. de, first to mention whooping-cough, 666

Baker, Sir George, history of cinchona bark, 320 note,
merits of Talbor, 322,
epidemic agues of 1780-85, 366-7,
failure of bark in ditto, 368,
merits of Jurin, 479,
Sutton’s inoculation, 498,
cowpox, 558,
dysentery of 1762, 778

Ballard, Edward, occupation of mothers as a cause of infantile diarrhoea, 766 note,
“healthy” infants have due share of same, 768,
slight fatality of diarrhoea in adults, 769

Banff, inoculation not general, 510

Bangor, enteric fever in 1882, 220

Barbone, Nicholas, builder in London after the Fire, 86

Barcelona, sickness at among the troops in 1705, 106

Bard, Samuel, throat-disease in New York, 690

Bark, cinchona, use and abuse of in fevers, 318-25,
failure of in epidemic agues, 368

Barker, John, of Sarum, epidemic typhus of 1741, 79, 80, 83;
Sydenham as phlebotomist, 450

Barker, John, of Coleshill, type of fever in 1794, 157,
agues in 1781, 367,
influenzas of 1788 and fol. years, 370,
smallpox a bugbear, 517

Bartholin, Thomas, transplantation of disease, 474

Bateman, Thomas, decline of fever 1804-16, 163,
epidemic fever of 1816-19, 168,
cause of differences of type, 169,
ratio of relapsing cases, 172,
fatal smallpox in Shoe Lane, 547, 568,
measles of 1807, 650,
dysentery rare, 785

Bath, rumour of plague &c. in 1675, 34, 458,
influenza of 1782, 364 note,
of 1788, 372,
of 1803, 375,
smallpox of 1837, 604,
age-incidence of same, 624

Beddoes, Thomas, influenza of 1803, 375

Belfast, mortality in military hospital 1689-90, 234,
fatality of fever and dysentery 1846, 294,
recent enteric fever, 299,
cholera in 1832, 818,
in 1849, 839,
in 1853-4, 856

Bent, Thomas, crystalline smallpox at Derby in 1818, 577

Berkeley, Bishop, queries on Irish economics, 239,
dysentery and fever at Cloyne, &c. 1740-41, 241-2,
tar water in smallpox, 546

Berkeley, relapsing fever in 1794-5, 156

Berkhamstead, general inoculation at, 509

Bernoulli, saving of life by inoculation, 629

Bilge-water a cause of ship-fever, 105, 106 note

Bideford, incidence of influenza in 1803, 376,
cholera in 1854, 851 note

Bilston, cholera in 1832, 824,
in 1849, 845

Birmingham, scarlatina in 1778, 710

Black, William, safety of inoculation, 608

Black Assizes at Taunton in 1730, 92,
alleged at Launceston in 1742, 93,
at the Old Bailey in 1750, 93,
at Dublin in 1776, 98

“Black Death,” Irish name of cerebro-spinal fever, 863

Black Fever, Irish name of relapsing fever, 289

Blackmore, Sir Richard, hysteric or little fever, 68,
against inoculation, 479

Blagden, Charles, materies of influenza, 406

Blakiston, Peyton, influenza of 1837, 387

Blandford, effects of inoculation on smallpox at, 513

Bloodletting in fevers, Sydenham’s practice in, 3,
attack on in 1741, 83,
in ship-fevers, 104,
from the jugular by Freind, 107,
of doubtful use in low fever, 122,
revival of in 1817, 170, 172,
in relapsing fever, 174, 175 note, 176,
unsuitable in the fevers of 1830-40, 189,
unsuitable in the relapsing fever of 1842, 203,
in case of Charles II., 325,
in influenza of 1743, 350,
failure of in influenza of 1833, 381,
Whitmore opposed to in influenza of 1658, 381 note,
history of in smallpox, 445-50,
in whooping-cough, 667, 668,
injurious in epidemic angina, 701,
in the cholera of 1832, 833

Boate, Gerard, fluxes and fevers of Ireland, 226

Boerhaave, Hermann, antidotes to smallpox, 494

Bolton, dysentery in 1832, 789

Boringdon, Lord, Vaccination Bills in 1813 and 1814, 609

Borlase, Edmund, dysentery of Ireland, 228

Boston, U. S., inoculation, 483, 485,
smallpox epidemic of 1721, 485,
tar-water in smallpox, 546,
adult cases in the smallpox of 1721 and 1752, 626,
throat-distemper of 1735-6, 688

Boston, Eng., agues in 1780, 367, 368,
statistics of smallpox 18th cent., 525, 540, 557

Boufflers, Madame de, smallpox after inoculation, 495, 500

Bowel-hive, meaning of, 758 note

Boyle, Robert, influenza not due to the weather, 399,
hypothesis of subterraneous miasmata, 400-2, 408,
agues rare in Scotland, 341

Boylston, Zabdiel, inoculations at Boston, 483, 485

Brest, malignant typhus in 1757, 113

Bridgenorth, epidemic agues in 1784, 368

Bright, Richard, enteric fever in London in 1825-6, 186

Bristol, fever in 1696 46,
types of the fever of 1817-19, 173,
fever-cases in general wards, 179,
type of fever in 1834, 201,
cholera of 1832, 828,
of 1849, 846 note

Bromfeild, William, against Sutton’s inoculations, 499,
abandons inoculation, 515

Bromley, malignant sore-throat in 1746, 696

Brown, Andrew, fevers of the seven ill years in Scotland, 48

Browne, Sir Thomas, urn-burial and Norwich churchyards, 38

Brownrigg, William, nature of Leyden fever of 1669, 19 note,
contagion of fever in ships of war, 114

Buchanan, Andrew, state of the poor in Glasgow 1830, 598,
Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828, 788 note

Buchanan, Sir G., desires definition of “influenza proper,” 397 note

Buckie, cholera of 1832, 815

Budd, William, epidemic fever of 1839 at North Tawton, 196

Burial in relation to plague, 36-39

Burke, Edmund, dearth of 1795, 158 note

Burns, Robert, distress and fever of 1783, 154 note

Bury St Edmunds, smallpox in 1824, 593

Butter, William, infantile remittent fever, 7

Buying the smallpox, in Wales, 471,
in Africa, 473,
in Poland, 473


Caithness, inoculation in, 510, 542

Calabria, earthquakes and disease, 413, 419

Cambridge, plague of 1666, 34 note,
gaol fever, 96,
false rumour of smallpox, 458,
inoculations near, 592

Cameron, James, scarlatina from milk, 734 note

Campbell, David, typhus in cotton-mills, 151,
few children die of typhus, 152

Canterbury, smallpox in 1824, 581,
inoculations, 584

Cardiff, diphtheria, 742,
cholera of 1849, 845, 847

Carleton, William, tales of Irish famines, 254 note

Carlisle, typhus in 1781, 147,
smallpox of infants, 538,
rate of fatality, 555,
measles, 646,
scarlatina, 712, 723,
cholera of 1832, 829

Carnbroe, winter cholera in a mining township, 837

Carrick, Dr, fevers of Bristol, 201

Carter, H. W., smallpox and inoculation at Canterbury 1824, 581, 584

Castlebar, gaol-fever in 1847, 292

Cats, throat-distemper of in 1798, 719

Ceely, Robert, cowpox near Aylesbury, 561 and note

Cellar dwellings make typhus in Liverpool, 141,
in Manchester, 149,
in Whitehaven, 151

Cerebro-spinal fever, question of diagnosis of in Irish epidemic of 1771, 247,
at Cork and Dublin in 1864, 297,
two recent periods of, 863,
statistics of valueless, 863,
instance of its being overlooked after autopsy and inquest, 863

Chalmers, Thomas, state of Glasgow in 1819, 599

Chambers, W. F., enteric fever in London 1826, 185

Chandler, John, throat-distemper of 1739, 692

Charles II., patronizes Talbor, 319, 322,
his ague treated by bark, 323,
his fatal illness, 324,
visits his mistress after smallpox, 454

Charleston, inoculation at in 1738, 486, 490,
fatal measles, 645

Chelmsford, Sutton’s trial at, 499, 608

Cheshire, epidemic agues, 313, 368

Chester, public health in plague-times and after, 40-42,
typhus among military prisoners in 1716, 60, 96,
typhus endemic in suburbs, 143,
smallpox in 1634, 436,
inoculation, 508, 511, 516,
smallpox in 1774, 537, 544 note,
compared with Warrington, 551-555,
cholera in 1866, 857

Cheyne, George, on fevers in 1701, 52

Chichester, mild smallpox in 17th cent., 455,
smallpox in 1821, 581,
inoculation and vaccination in 1821-22, 591

Children, nervous fever of in 1661, 5-8,
epidemics among after the Great Plague, 18,
typhus in, 152, 276, 571-2,
smallpox of in 17th century, 434, 436,
alleged mildness of same, 441-2

Cholera, Asiatic, Anglo-Indian writings on before 1831, 793,
preparations for, 794,
diagnosis of from cholera nostras in 1831, 795-6,
first case of in England, 797,
the Sunderland epidemic, 797-802,
extension to the Tyne, 802-5,
to Scotland, 805,
the Glasgow epidemic in 1832, 808,
the Edinburgh epidemic, 812,
table of the epidemic in Scotland, 813,
among the fishing population, 814,
the 1832 epidemic in Ireland, 816,
table of same, 819,
the outbreak in London, 820,
table of 1832 epidemic in England, 821,
exempted towns, 823,
Bilston, 824,
in Liverpool shipping, 826,
at Manchester, 826,
exemption of cotton mills, 827,
microbic hypothesis in 1832, 827 note,
chief season of, 830,
season of in Paris, 831 note,
localities of, 830,
susceptible persons, 831,
question of contagion, 831,
means of transmission, 832,
sanitary lessons, 833,
revivals of in 1833-34 and 1837, 834

Second epidemic 1848-9: Outbreak at Edinburgh, 835,
at Springburn, Glasgow, 836,
great mortality at Glasgow in mid winter, 837,
in mining townships, 837,
summer epidemic in Dundee, 838,
in Ireland, 839,
great outbreak delayed in London till July 1849, 841,
chief London localities of, 841,
many deaths from collapse at outset, 842,
mixed with much cholera nostras, 842,
prevalence in institutions, 841, 843,
table for England, 843,
in Merthyr Tydvil, 845,
in Hull, 845,
in Airedale, 846,
exempted places, 846,
influence of locality, 847,
law of altitude, 847,
carried in surface water, 848

Third epidemic 1853-4: Outbreak at Newcastle and Gateshead, 849,
Commissioners’ report on, 849,
suspected water-supply, 850,
the epidemic partial in England in 1854, 851,
table of same and of 1866 epidemic, 852,
supposed connexion with water in South London, 853,
and in Soho, 854,
the epidemic in Scotland, 855,
in Ireland, 856

Fourth epidemic: Outbreak at Southampton in 1865, 856,
Liverpool &c. in 1866, 857,
chiefly in the East End of London, 857,
table of four epidemics in the parishes of London, 858,
main drainage incomplete at East End in 1866, 859,
slight Scotch epidemic in 1866, 859,
no subsequent epidemic, 859

In India before 1817, 860,
causes of endemicity since 1817, 861

Cholera infantum, see Diarrhoea.

Cholera nostras, fatal to adults chiefly in old age, 769,
historical references to, 770,
distinction of from bilious colic, 771 note,
Willis’s symptoms of, 772,
in and near Leeds in 1825, 773,
diagnosis from Asiatic in 1831, 795-6

Christison, Sir Robert, relapsing fever of 1819, 174, 177,
fever cases in general wards, 179,
relapsing fever of 1827-29, 182,
heat of 1826, 185,
rarity of enteric fever in Edinburgh, 187,
relapsing fever of 1842, 203,
agues at Kelso dispensary 18th cent., 370,
ague in 1827, 378,
dysentery in and near Edinburgh, 787, 791

Christleton, village smallpox, 556

Churchill, Fleetwood, influenza in Dublin 1847, 389

Circassia, procuring of smallpox in, 472,
Voltaire’s legend of, 473 note

Clanny, W. R., Sunderland cholera, 798, 801 note

Clark, John, ship fever, 117,
Newcastle typhus, 142,
influenza of 1782, 364,
agues, 369,
inoculation of infants, 507,
scarlet fever of 1778, 713,
dysentery, 784

Clarke, James, typhus at Nottingham in 1807, 165,
ague in 1808, 378 note,
gangrene in measles, 706

Clayton, Mr, describes cowpox in the cow, 560

Cleghorn, George, influenza in Minorca, 352,
mild and severe smallpox, 547

Clemow, F., origin of influenza in 1889,