393 note

Cleveland, miliary fever or scarlatina in 1760, 127, 703

Clifton, see Bristol

Clouston, T. S., dysentery in asylum, 791

Clowes, William, calls variola measles, 633

Cloyne, dysentery in 1741, 241

Clutterbuck, Henry, excremental effluvia in houses, 87 note, 170

Cobbett, William, the potato in Ireland, 285

Cockburn, William, on “little fever,” 68,
sickness in navy, 103

Cockermouth, typhus, 114,
cholera, 846

Coffins, at Tewkesbury to prevent plague, 36,
supersede cerecloths, 37,
advantages of, 38,
burials without in a Scots parish, 51,
and in cholera, 814 note, 818

Coke family, typhus in, 31, 53,
smallpox in, 435

Colden, Cadwallader, throat-distemper in New York, 689

Coleridge, S. T., merits of inoculation and vaccination as poetic subjects, 588 note

Colic, bilious, distinguished from cholera nostras, 771 note

Collieston, cholera of 1832, 815, 833 note

Comatose fever, 5, 20, 75

Connemara, famine and fever of 1821-22, 268

Constantinople, inoculation at 463-467, 475

Copenhagen, adult smallpox in 1833, 612

Cork, types and causes of fever 18th cent., 234-6,
state of workhouse in 1846, 286,
fever of 1864, 297,
cholera of 1832, 816,
of 1849, 839

Cormack, John Rose, relapsing fever, 204

Cotton mills, typhus in, 152,
effects of on married women, 767,
adverse to cholera, 827

Country disease, name of dysentery in Ireland, 226-7

Coventry, infantile diarrhoea, 765 and note

Covey, John, formal inoculation, 505

Cowan, Robert, Glasgow typhus, 191,
little smallpox among Irish adults, 601

Cowpox, matter from used to inoculate with, 558,
Jenner’s advocacy of, 558,
its properties used by Adams to illustrate phagedaena, 559,
accounts of by Jenner, Pearson and Clayton, 560,
circumstances of its origin in a cow, 561,
case of in a milkmaid, 562,
obsolete opinions concerning, 562,
called by Jenner “smallpox of the cow,” 563,
attempts to manufacture it out of smallpox, 564,
see also Vaccination

Cox, Daniel, fever of 1741, 83 note

Craigie, David, Edinburgh enteric fever, 187,
cholera at Newburn 1832, 804,
at Edinburgh, 812,
history of cholera, 860 note

Cromarty, cholera of 1832, 814

Cromwell, Oliver, dies of epidemic ague, 303

Crook, John, sells bark in 1658, 320

Crookshank, Edgar, describes cowpox, 561 note,
witnesses contamination of milk, 735

Cross, John Green, Norwich smallpox, 578,
inoculation in 1819, 591

Croup, name for diphtheria in Bucks 1793, 716,
in Glasgow in 1819, 738 note

Croydon, scarlatina from blood &c., 735,
increase of diphtheria, 742

Cucumbers, theory of in fever of 1624, 32

Cupar Fife, crystalline smallpox, 575

Cullen, William, definitions of scarlatina and cynanche, 737,
rickets congenital, 767

Currie, James, typhus in Liverpool, 141,
inoculation, 508, 511,
cold affusions in scarlatina, 723


Darlington, enteric fever and water-supply, 221,
cholera nostras 18th cent., 772

Darwin, Charles, quantity of seminal particles, 608 note

Deal, supposed typhoid in 1806, 165

Dearths in England, 78, 125-6, 132, 159,
in Scotland, 30, 50, 82, 154, 599

Deering, Charles, Nottingham smallpox in 1736, 522,
mild smallpox, 845

Defoe, Daniel, the Plague and the Fire of London, 42

Dengue, an analogy for influenza, 424

Denman, Thomas, diphtheria of infants, 714

Depuratory fevers, 21

Dewar, Henry, smallpox of 1817, 575

Diarrhoea, infantile, called “griping in the guts” 17th cent., 747,
Harris on mortality from in London 17th cent., 749,
London statistics of in 17th and 18th cent., 750-755,
less of in provincial cities, 757,
first described by Rush, 758,
modern statistics of, 758-762,
has declined in London since 18th cent., 763,
modern prevalence in provincial towns, 765,
in infants of workwomen, 766,
a congenital risk, 767-8

Dillon, Dr, gaol-fever at Castlebar, 292

Dimsdale, Baron, re-inoculation, 505,
opposes infant inoculations, 507,
general inoculations, 509

Dingle, escapes famine of 1817, 262,
cholera of 1849, 840

Diphtheria, identified in 18th cent., 679, 691 note, 702, 737 note,
called croup in 1793, 716,
reappears in 1856, 736,
details of the epidemic of 1858-9, 739,
incidence of on town and country, 741,
on London, 742,
on age and sex, 743,
favouring conditions of, 744

Dispensaries in London, 16, 135

Dixon, Joshua, Whitehaven fevers, 152, 571

Dobson, Dr, Liverpool smallpox 1772-4, 537

Dogs attacked by influenza, 354, 361, 371 note, 372, 398

Donoughmore, fever in 1836, 277

Dorset, epidemic agues in 1780, 369

Douglas, James, post-mortem on case of fever, 55

Douglass, William, smallpox and inoculation at Boston 1721, 486,
danger of inoculated smallpox, 607,
throat-distemper of New England 1735-6, 686-9

Dover, Thomas, fever at Bristol 1696, 46,
agues in Glo’stershire, 74,
treated for smallpox by Sydenham, 446 note,
his success in smallpox in 1720, 449,
mildness of measles, 641 note

Drage, William, epidemic agues of 1658, 315,
transplantation of agues, 474 note,
incubation of measles, 655 note

Drogheda, dysentery at siege of, in 1649, 227,
cholera in 1832, 88,
in 1849, 839

Drunkenness in London 18th cent., 84

Dublin, Black Assizes of 1776, 98,
question of enteric fever in 1826, 187,
typhus in 1682, 228,
nervous fever in 1734, 239,
relapsing fever in 1738-9, 240,
dysentery and fever 1740-41, 241-2,
relapsing fever in 1746-8, 245,
putrid fevers in 1754-62, 245-6,
fevers of 1799-1802, 249-50,
dysentery and relapsing fever 1825-26, 271,
intermittent fever in 1827, 273,
typhus in 1837, 277,
fever of 1864-5, 297,
recent enteric fever, 299,
influenza of 1688, 336,
of 1693, 337,
horse-colds, 345, 354,
malignant smallpox, 549,
mild and severe scarlatina, 722, 724,
cholera of 1832, 816,
of 1849, 839

Dundalk, camp sickness, 230

Dundee, typhus of 1836, 192-3,
relapsing and typhus in 1842, 204,
hospital cases of typhus, 210,
dysentery, 789,
cholera of 1832, 814,
of 1849, 838,
of 1853, 855,
of 1866, 859

Dunkirk rant, 340

Dunse, smallpox in 1733, 527,
inoculation revived, 590

Duvillard, M., on saving of life by vaccination, 629

Dysentery, four degrees of epidemic prevalence, 774,
severe during plague in London, 774,
names of in bills of mortality, 775,
London epidemics of 1669-72, 776,
in Scotland 1731-37, 777,
in London in 1762, 778,
symptoms of in Newcastle in 1758-9, 780-1,
Akenside’s theory of its pathology, 782,
epidemic period of 1779-85, 783,
in a Scots fishing village in 1789, 784,
epidemic period 1800-2, 785,
in Glasgow in 1827-29, 786,
in Edinburgh 1828, 787,
in Wakefield Asylum, 787,
occasions of in 1827-29, 787,
in Scotland in 1836, 789,
at Taunton workhouse in 1837, 790,
at Penzance in 1848, 790-1,
during the cholera of 1849, 791, 842,
relation of to typhus fever, 792


Earlsoham, malignant fever in a farmhouse, 161

East Indiamen, fevers in, 117

Edinburgh, mortality bills of 1740-41, 82, 523,
fevers of 1699, 49,
worm fever in 1731-32, 75,
relapsing fever in 1735, 76,
state of the poor in 1818, 174,
types of fever 1817-19, 174-5,
fever cases in general wards of Infirmary, 179,
relapsing fever of 1827-29, 182,
little enteric fever, 187, 199-200, 202,
typhus of 1836-39, 192,
relapsing fever of 1843-44, 204,
Irish fever of 1846-48, 208,
typhus and enteric of 1864, 210,
relapsing of 1870, 211 note,
influenza of 1733, 346,
of 1743, 351,
of 1758, 353,
of 1775, 361,
smallpox in 18th cent., 523,
in 1817, 575,
in 1830-31, 600,
measles in 1735, 642,
in 1740-41, 643,
in 1808, 651-2,
whooping-cough in 1740-41, 670,
scarlatina in 1684, 681,
in 1733, 684,
Cullen’s experiences of the same, 737,
in 1804-5, 721,
in 1832-33, 725,
dysentery in 1734, 777,
in 1828, 787,
the “New-Town Epidemic” of 1828, 788,
cholera of 1832, 807, 812,
of 1848, 835,
of 1853-4, 855

Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, opposes Vaccination Bill, 609

Ellenborough, second Earl of, brings in Vaccination Bill, 606

Elliotson, John, agues in 1826-28, 378

Elyot, Sir Thomas, infantile maladies of 16th cent., 666

Ennis, chief months of fever 1846-48, 288

Enteric Fever, epidemic of 1661 identified as, 8 note,
“little fever” identified as, 70,
probable cases of in 1804-10, 165,
in London in 1826, 183-6,
alleged at North Tawton in 1839, 196 note,
at Anstruther in 1835-39, 199,
at Edinburgh, 199-200,
Lombard on proportion of in Britain, 201,
prevalence of since 1869, 211,
favouring conditions of, 217,
highest English death-rates, 218,
explosions of, 220,
age-incidence fatality and predisposition to, 222-3,
Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828, 788 note

Epidemic Constitutions copied by Sydenham from Hippocrates, 10

Evelyn, John, the winter of 1653-4, 23,
Norwich graveyards, 38,
bark prescribed for Charles II., 323,
last illness of Charles II., 324,
“new fever” of 1678, 330,
attack of ague, 331 note,
treated in smallpox, 445

Exeter, influenza of 1729, 345,
of 1775, 360,
of 1837, 386,
smallpox of 1837, 604,
measles in 1824, 662,
cholera of 1832, 829,
cholera and water-supply, 854


Faröe Islands, strangers’ cold, 432

Farr, William, endorses Watt’s doctrine of displacement, 658,
cholera and elevation of ground, 847,
cholera and Newcastle drinking-water, 850

Febricula or “little fever” of 1720-30, 67-70

Feckenheim, camp sickness, 108

Ferguson, Dr, of Aberdeen, measles in 1808, 651-2

Ferguson, Robert, favours inoculation in 1825, 592

Ferriar, John, typhus severe in migrants to towns, 101,
fevers in Manchester, 149,
need for fever-hospitals, 158,
troubles of a young couple, 552

Ferryden, cholera in 1833, 815, 834

Fever Hospitals, committee on in 1818, 178

Fire of London, alleged effect on plague, 42

Fletcher, Andrew, state of Scotland end of 17th cent., 49

“Flox and Smallpox,” meaning of, 436 note

Forbes, Sir John, inoculation in Sussex, 591

Fordyce, John, miliary fever, 130

Fordyce, Sir William, malignant sore-throat in 1773, 707,
prevalence of rickets, 756

Foster, Sir Michael, Old Bailey Black Assizes, 93

Foster, Sir Walter, on cerebro-spinal fever diagnosed as typhoid, 863

Fothergill, Anthony, influenza of 1775, 359,
in horses, 361

Fothergill, John, fevers of 1751-55, 122,
collective inquiry on influenza of 1782, 360,
smallpox of 1751, 453, 529,
objections to the Parish Clerks’ bills, 530, 638 note,
epidemic sore-throat 1746-48, 696, 737

Fothergill, Samuel, scarlatina in 1814, 723

Fowler, Thomas, arsenic in ague, 368

Freind, John, Sydenham’s varieties of fever, 27 note,
petition to Commons on drink, 84,
sickness of Peterborough’s expedition 1705, 106,
adverse to inoculation, 478

Frewen, Thomas, methods of inoculation, 492,
Boerhaave’s antidotes, 494 note

Fuller, Thomas, inoculation, 489 note


Gaddesden, John of, uses “mesles” for morbilli, 632

Gairloch, fevers in 18th cent., 155

Galway, plague of 1649, 227,
fever of 1741, 243,
fever of 1821-22, 269,
gaol fever in 1848, 291,
cholera of 1832, 816,
of 1849, 839

Gaol Fever, 90-95,
Howard’s discoveries of, 95-97,
Lettsom’s cases, 97,
infection of in ships, 114,
in 1783-55, 153,
Neild’s inquiries, 628

Gaskell, Mrs, the fever episode in ‘Jane Eyre,’ 181 note,
distress of the working class in Manchester in 1839-41, 197

Gateshead, fever in 1790, 142,
cholera in 1832, 803,
cholera in 1853, 849

Gatti, Angelo, method and results of inoculation, 495-7

Gaulter, Henry, Manchester cholera of 1832, 826

Geach, Francis, influenza and astrology, 405,
dysentery of, 1781, 783

Geary, W. J., the Limerick poor in 1836, 275,
age-incidence of typhus, 276

Geneva, vital statistics of, 443 note, 623

George I. sanctions inoculation, 468-9

George Ham, epidemic pneumonia (?) in 1747, 355

Germany, names of influenza in 1712, 339,
apparent extinction of smallpox, 612,
re-vaccination, 612

Gibraltar, ship fever at, 115,
influenza of 1837, 388

Gilchrist, Ebenezer, nervous fever of 1735, 75,
inoculations at Dumfries, 509

Gladstone, rt. hon. W. E., on dearth of 1767, 132 note

Glasgow, fever statistics from 1795, 164,
fever of 1816-19, 175,
fever of 1827-28, 181,
spotted typhus after 1835, 189, 193,
public health 1831-39, 191,
fatality of typhus in adults, 193,
fevers of 1842-44, 204,
fevers of 1847-48, 208,
influenza of 1831, 379,
smallpox in end of 18th cent., 539, 557,
decline of smallpox 1801-12, 569,
statistics of vaccination 1801-18, 582,
revival of smallpox 2nd quarter 19th cent., 597-601,
immunity from same of Irish in, 602,
age-incidence of smallpox compared with same at Paris 1850-51, 611,
measles in 1808 etc., 652,
comparative table with London 1783-1812, 655,
substitution of measles for smallpox, 657,
ages of fatal measles, 661,