smallpox in the ‘Royal George,’ 543,
cholera nostras at Portsmouth, 772

Linnaeus, Carolus, as nosologist, 670

Lipscomb, G., his prize poem on Inoculation, 588

Lisbon, ship fever at, 105

Liskeard, diphtheria in 1748, 694

Liverpool, typhus in 18th cent., 140,
enteric in 1836, 201,
the Irish fever of 1847, 206,
recent typhus, 214,
influenza atmosphere in 1837, 388,
general inoculations, 504, 508, 511,
18th cent. smallpox, 537,
age-incidence of same in 1837, 624,
diarrhoea, 765,
dysentery in the Irish fever, 790,
cholera of 1832, 826,
of 1849, 847,
of 1854, 851,
of 1866, 857

Livingston, Dr, Aberdeen sore-throat in 1790, 718,
dysentery in 1789, 784

Lombard, H. C., enteric fever in Britain, 188 note, 201

London, Asiatic cholera of 1832, 820,
of 1833, 834,
supposed in 1837, 835,
epidemic of 1848-9, 841, 847,
of 1854, 853,
of 1866, 857

London, cholera nostras in, in Sydenham’s time, 769,
every autumn, 770,
in 1669-70, 771,
described by Willis, 772

London, diphtheria in 741-2

London, dysentery in, names of in the Bills, 774,
symptoms of in 1669, 776,
epidemic of 1762, 779,
of 1779-81, 783

London, fever in, endemic, 13,
in Sydenham’s time, 18-22,
epidemic of 1685-6, 22,
identified as typhus, 27,
statistics of to end of 17th cent., 43,
epidemic of 1694, 45,
statistics of 1701-20, 54,
epidemic of 1709-10, 54, 57,
sample case of, 55,
a case of relapsing in 1710, 57,
epidemic of 1714, 59,
in 1718, 64,
statistics of 1720-40, 65,
weekly maxima 1726-29, hysteric or little, 67,
relapsing, 69,
identified as enteric, 70,
epidemic typhus of 1741-42, 78-81,
in Marshalsea prison, 91,
at Old Bailey in 1750, 93,
in gaols, 97,
slow remittent of 1751-55, 122,
typhus from 1770 to 1800, 133-140,
localities of, 140 note,
hospital for in 1802, 160,
slight prevalence of from 1803 to 1816, 163,
possible enteric cases in 1808, 165,
epidemic of 1816-19, 168,
bred by insanitary state of houses, 170,
relapsing in 1817, 172,
cases of mixed in general hospitals, 178,
relapsing in 1826-28, 182,
enteric in 1826, 183,
change of type to spotted, 188,
purely typhus in 1837-38, 194,
epidemic typhus of 1847, 205,
in part relapsing, 208,
relapsing in 1868, 211,
ratios of typhus and enteric at Fever Hospital, 213,
season of enteric, 217

London, Fire of, supposed effect on plague, 42

London, infantile diarrhoea in, entered as “griping in the guts,” 747,
Harris on in 1689, 749,
weekly bills of in 17th cent., 750, 752, 753,
annual deaths 1667-1720, 753,
some 18th cent. weekly bills, 754, 755,
conditions favouring, 756,
19 cent. statistics, 759-60,
recent death-rates moderate, 761,
reasons of greater fatality in former times, 763

London influenza weekly mortalities, of 1580, 310,
of 1675, 326,
of 1679, 329,
of 1688, 336,
of 1693, 338,
of 1729, 343,
of 1733 and 1737, 349,
of 1743, 350,
of 1762, 356,
of 1775, 359 note,
of 1782, 363,
of 1803, 375,
of 1831, 379,
of 1833, 380,
of 1837, 384,
of 1847, 390,
of 1890-94, 394

London, measles in, deaths from in 17th cent., 634, 635, 640,
epidemic of 1670, 653,
epidemic of 1674, 656,
indirect effects of same contrasted with those of smallpox, 658-9,
deaths from in 18th cent., 641, 643,
epidemic of 1705-6, 641,
fatalities one-tenth those of smallpox, 644,
ratio of to all deaths, 647,
epidemic of 1807-8, 650-1,
compared with Glasgow, 655,
deaths from 1813 to 1837, 660,
in 1837-39, 662,
two seasonal maxima, 664

London, sanitary state of under George II., 84,
improvement in after 1766, 133,
of workmen’s houses in 1819, 170

London, scarlatina or diphtheria in, Morton’s cases, 682,
cases 1739, 692,
Fothergill’s cases, 696,
Fordyce’s cases, 707,
Levison’s cases, 708,
Sims’ cases, 713,
Willan’s cases, 714,
in 1796-1802, 719,
Bateman’s notes of, 722,
mild in 1822, 723,
recent range of fatality, 730,
fatalities at home and in hospital, 730,
seasonal maximum, 731

London, smallpox of 1628 in, 435,
annual deaths 1629-61, 436-437,
epidemic of 1641, 437,
after the Restoration, 437,
ratio of adult cases 17th cent., 444,
mild type in 1667-9, 452,
compared with that of 1751, 455,
estimate of proportion of faces marked by, 454,
epidemic of 1694, 458,
of 1710, 461,
annual deaths 1701-20, 461,
private hospitals for, 463,
public hospital for, 505, 533,
prevalence in middle of 18th cent., 529,
table of weekly deaths in 1752, 532,
smaller mortality of infants from than in provincial towns, 534,
annual deaths 1761-1800, 535,
in the Foundling Hospital, 550,
annual deaths 1801-37, 568,
epidemic of 1817-19, 580,
in Christ’s Hospital in 1818, 581,
epidemic of 1825, 593,
annual deaths 1837-1893, 613,
excessive incidence of from 1871 to 1885, 616,
age, sex and fatality of in epidemic of 1871-72, 618,
varying fatality of from 1871 to 1893, 619,
fatality at each age-period in 1893, 619,
ages at death from in 1845, 624

London, whooping-cough, ratio of to all deaths 1731-1831, 647,
annual mortality 1701-1782, 669,
same from 1783 to 1812, 655

Londonderry, sickness in siege of, 229,
cholera in 1832, 818

Louis, P. Ch. A fièvre typhoide, 196 note

Lower, Richard, against bark in fever, 323,
his advice to Queen Mary, 459

Lucas, James, typhus in Leeds, 146,
smallpox and inoculation, 510, 555

Lucretius, air-borne infection, 408

Lynn, smallpox in 1819, 580

Lynn, Walter, opposes blooding in smallpox, 449,
smallpox in 1710-14, 462


Macaulay, Lord, on the Soho plague-pit, 38,
eloquent on smallpox, 454,
on the death of Queen Mary, 460 note

McCarthy, Alexander, state of Skibbereen in 1826, 274

Maidstone, gaol fever at, 153,
diphtheria and ground-water, 744

Maitland, Charles, inoculator, 467-71

Mallet, Mr, catalogue of earthquakes, 407

Malthus, T. R., population and potatoes, 253, 284, 285 note,
one infection will replace another, 629

Manchester, miliary fever becomes rare, 131,
increase of population, 146,
typhus in end of 18th cent., 149,
statistics of fever hospital, 164,
distress and typhus 1839-41, 197,
amount of enteric fever in 1836, 201,
typhus in 1847, 207,
in 1863-5, 209,
smallpox in 18th cent., 536,
extent of early vaccination, 583,
mortality by smallpox in 1826, 593,
measles in 18th cent., 644,
scarlatina in 1805, 722,
cholera nostras in 1794, 773,
cholera in 1832, 826,
in 1849, 846

Manningham, Sir Richard, on “little” or hysteric fever, 70

Mapletoft, Dr, his experience of smallpox, 546

Mary, Queen of William III, dies of smallpox, 459

Marsh fevers distinct from epidemic agues, 302, 367, 369

Marshalsea prison, state of in 1729, 91

Mason, Simon, on ague-curers, 325

Massey, Isaac, smallpox seldom fatal in schoolboys, 545

Mather, Cotton, instigates to inoculation, 485

Maty, M. defends Gatti’s inoculations, 496,
proposes general inoculation of infants, 506

May, William, fever and influenza in Cornwall, 373

Mead, Richard, the Dunkirk rant, 340,
no failures of inoculation, 487, 488

Measles, etymology of, 632,
variolae translated by, 633,
in 17th cent., 634, 640,
Sydenham on, 635,
indirect mortality from in 1674, 636,
in 18th cent., 641,
at Manchester, 644,
at Northampton, 645,
in the Foundling Hospital, 646,
increased fatality at end of 18 cent., 647,
anomalous at Uxbridge, 649,
the great epidemic of 1807-8, 651,
the epidemic in Glasgow, 652,
comparison of in London and Glasgow, 655,
Watt’s doctrine of substitution, 655-7,
reception of same, 657,
sequelae of, 659,
recent statistics of, 660,
recent highest death-rates from, 663,
progression of epidemics, 663,
season of, 664,
age-incidence of, 664,
an illustrative epidemic of, 665

Merthyr Tydvil, enteric fever, 219,
cholera in 1849, 844-5, 847,
in 1854, 851,
in 1866, 857

Miasmatic infection, Sydenham’s and Boyle’s doctrine of, 29, 400,
of enteric fever, 222-3,
of endemic ague, 302,
of influenza in, 401-5,
after earthquakes, 415-20,
of dengue, 424,
not excluded in scarlatina, 732,
of diphtheria, 745,
of dysentery, 788,
of cholera, 842

Middlesborough, enteric fever, 221

Miliary fever, 72, 76, 124, 127, 128-131

Milk, a vehicle of enteric fever, 222,
of scarlatina, 734,
of diphtheria, 745

Millar, Dr, isolation of fever patients, 178

Miller, Hugh, Cromarty cholera, 814

Molyneux, Dr, influenza of 1688, 336,
of 1693, 337

Minorca, localized influenza of 1748, 352,
mild and severe smallpox, 547

Missenden, Great, inoculation revived, 592

Moir, D. M., Musselburgh cholera, 806

Monro, Alexander, primus, influenza of 1762, 357 note,
procuring the smallpox in Scotland, 471,
inoculation in same, 509

Monro, A. Campbell, measles at Jarrow, 663

Monro, Donald, war typhus, 110

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, favours inoculation, 467-8,
referred to in prize poem, 588

Moore, John, on “putrid” fevers, 130,
improved health of London, 133

Morley, Christopher Love, epidemic agues and influenzas of 1678-79, 329, 332

Morton, Richard, worm fever, 7,
scale of malignity in fevers, 16,
fevers of 1678-80, 21,
smallpox not fatal to infants, 441,
opposed to the cooling regimen in do., 448,
fourteen things that make smallpox severe, 451-2,
pock-pits, 456,
measles of 1674, 657,
his view of scarlatina, 682,
cholera nostras, 771,
dysentery infective, 772

Moryson, Fynes, dietetic habits of Irish, 226

Moseley, Benjamin, practice of vaccination in 1808, 586

Moss, Mr, Liverpool public health 18th cent., 141 note, 368

Mudge, John, experiment in inoculation, 501, 558

Mulgrave, Lord, vaccination among rich and poor, 589

Murchison, Charles, enteric fever in Edinburgh, 200,
cause of increase of same in London, 202,
history of relapsing fever 1842, 203,
enteric of 1846, 206 note,
table of typhus in hospitals, 210,
confuses marsh agues with epidemic agues, 303-4 note,
cerebro-spinal fever a variety of typhus, 863

Murre, old name of influenza, 305, 432

Musselburgh, cholera in 1832, 806


Nairn, war typhus in 1746, 109,
cholera in 1832, 813-14

Navy, health of in 17th cent., 102,
in 18th cent., 104,
Smollett on, 107 note,
in the Seven Years’ War and American War, 111-117,
improvement in, 119

Neath, high scarlatina death-rate, 728,
cholera in 1849, 845,
in 1866, 857

Nervous fever, of Willis in 1661, 5,
or hysteric, 67, 70,
of Wintringham and Hillary, 72,
of Gilchrist, 75,
of Huxham, 76,
or putrid, 120-128

Nettleton, Thomas, pioneer of inoculation, 470,
inspires Jurin, 479,
gives a real smallpox, 483,
his theory of inoculation, 483-4,
ceases to inoculate, 485,
his statistics of smallpox fatality, 518

New acquaintance, 308,
ague, 306, 307,
delight, 332,
disease, 312-13, 344,
Boyle on, 313 note,
distemper of 1688, 335,
fever of Sydenham, 23, 27

Newburn, cholera of 1832, 804

Newcastle-on-Tyne, typhus in 18th cent., 142, 156 note,
in 1816-19, 172,
“jolly rant” of 1675, 327 note,
agues of 1780, 369,
inoculation of infants, 507,
no smallpox statistics, 539,
comparison of inoculations and vaccinations, 582,
scarlatina in 1778-9, 712,
in 1779-1802, 720,
in 1802-27, 723,
dysentery 18th cent., 780, 784,
cholera of 1831-2, 802,
cholera of 1853, 849

Newcastle-under-Lyme, cholera of 1849, 847

Newhaven, cholera of 1848, 835

Newman, John Henry, priests in the Irish fever, 207 note,
“chemists for our cooks,” 280

Newton Stewart, smallpox of 1816, 574

Norfolk Island, strangers’ cold of, 432

North, Roger, his fever in 1661, 8,
on Lord Guildford’s fever, 321,
fashion of blood-letting, 325 note

Northampton, smallpox statistics in 1747, 524,
vital statistics, 525,
measles and whooping-cough 18th cent., 645,
infantile diarrhoea, 765

Norwich, high mortality of 1740-42, 82,
smallpox beginning of 19th cent., 569, 578,
epidemic of 1819, 578,
vaccinations at, 585,
inoculations at, 591,
smallpox in 1838-9, 605,
infantile diarrhoea, 766

Notification at Leeds in 1804, 180 note,
and incorrect diagnosis, 864

Nottingham, fever in 1808, 165,