18th cent. smallpox, 522,
infantile diarrhoea, 761-2


O’Brien, John, Dublin dysentery in 1825, 271,
relapsing fever in 1826, 272,
intermittents in 1827, 273, 297

O’Brien, W. Smith, native resources of Ireland, 281

O’Connell, Daniel, export of Irish corn in famine, 280

O’Connell, Maurice, Irish famine of 1740, 241,
dysentery from it, 242,
the mortality from it, 244

O’Connor, Dennis, types of fever in Cork 1849-65, 297

O’Rourke, Rev. John, history of the Irish famine of 1847, 279 note

Ogle, William, influenza mortality, 395,
progression of measles epidemics, 663,
age and sex in scarlatina deaths, 729,
diarrhoea and heat, 762

Oglethorpe, General, reports on state of gaols, 91

Old Bailey, black assize of 1750, 93

Ormerod, E. L., relapsing fever with miliaria, 129, 208

Oxford, fevers of children in 1655 and 1661, 5-7,
epidemic fever in Wadham College, 59,
typhus in 1785, 153,
smallpox in 1649 and 1654, 437,
in 1661, 439,
usually mild, 444,
cholera of 1854, 851 note


Paderborn, sickness in British troops, 110

Painswick, typhus in 1785, 154,
epidemic agues, 369,
general inoculation, 509,
smallpox fatal during typhus, 550

Paisley, an epidemic of fever in 1811, 165,
cholera of 1831-2, 813

Palatinate, war typhus of 1621, 32

Parish Clerks of London, the bills of become inadequate, 385, 594, 596,
statistics of smallpox from in 1628, 435,
scarlatina appears in, 725

Paris, type of fever in 1700, 53,
smallpox of adults in 1825, 593,
same compared with Glasgow in 1850-51, 601, 611,
whooping-cough in 1578, 666,
cholera of 1832, 821, 830 note

Parkin, John, epidemics and electricity, 406 note,
cholera water-borne, 832

Parsons, H. Franklin, reports on influenza of 1890-92, 396 note

Peacock, T. B., influenza of 1847, 391

Pearson, George, nature of cowpox, 560,
cowpox not smallpox of the cow, 563,
second infection with cowpox impossible, 610

Peel, Sir Robert, policy in Irish famine of 1817, 266,
in famine of 1845-46, 279

Peninsular War, decline of fevers in Britain during, 162-64, 557, 569

Pepys, Samuel, fever of 1661, 9,
of the queen in 1663, 13,
of 1694, 44,
duchess of Richmond’s smallpox, 454

Percival, Thomas, decline of miliary fever, 131,
Manchester public health, 146,
statistics of smallpox, 536,
of measles, 644

Perkins, W. L., nosology of putrid sore-throats, 712 note

Perth, fever of 1622, 30,
enteric fever in 1864, 210,
cholera of 1832, 813-14

Peru, influenza of 1759, 354,
earthquake of 1687, 421,
influenza of 1720, 422

Pestilential fever, 16, 22, 30, 67,
in London in 1773, 137

Peterborough, plague in 1666-7, 34

Pettenkofer, Max von, infection in the subsoil, 403,
English officials prejudiced against his doctrine, 859

Peyer’s patches, theoretical relation of to ague, 2,
found diseased in London fevers, 186,
in Anstruther fevers, 189

Philadelphia, measles brought to by Irish, 649

Physicians, College of, memorial against drink, 84, 756,
inquiry on influenza of 1782, 363,
their Dispensary, 462 note,
declare inoculation in 1754 to be salutary, 516, 608,
but in 1807 to be mischievous, 609,
inquiries on cholera of 1849, 846 note

Plague, extinction of, 34-43,
effects of upon Chester, 40,
alarm of in 1710, 58,
rumour of in London in 1799, 140

Plot, Robert, smallpox mild, 444

Plymouth, 18th cent. types of fever, 74,
worm fever, 75,
malignant fever, 77,
ship fever, 78,
anginose fever, 125, 699,
dysentery and fever after Corunna, 166,
influenza of 1729, 345,
horse-colds, 345-6,
influenza of 1733, 347,
of 1743, 351,
of 1788, 371,
influenza in the fleet in 1782, 426,
smallpox of 1724-25, 520,
malignant sore-throat, 695, 699,
recent measles and scarlatina, 720,
dysentery, 778,
cholera of 1832, 829

Pockpitted faces, in 17th cent. London, 454,
the Vaccine Board on decrease of, 456 note

Poland, buying the smallpox in, 473

Popham, John, Cork workhouse in 1846, 286

Population, increase of North of Trent, 144,
in Ireland, 250,
after potato famine, 283,
principle of, 657

Port Royal, earthquake of 1692, 415

Portsmouth, dysentery in crews in 1696, 104,
ship fever in 1779, 116,
influenza in new arrivals in 1788, 372,
agues and fluxes, 772

Posse, old name of influenza or catarrh, 305 note, 308 note

Potatoes, in Ireland, 241, 252, 284

Preston, infantile diarrhoea, 705,
suffers little from cholera, 823

Prices, in 18th cent., 62, 131,
in 1801, 159,
in second half of French war, 162, 256-7,
effects of fall of in Ireland, 268

Prichard, J. C., Bristol fever 1817-19, 173,
cases not isolated, 179

Pringle, Sir John, ventilation of Newgate, 94,
war dysentery and typhus, 108-10,
nosology of continued fevers, 130,
improved state of London, 133,
little smallpox in campaigns, 545,
dysentery rarely epidemic in London, 779 note

Prisons, state of early in 18th cent., 90-92,
Howard’s visitations of, 95,
Lettsom’s cases of fever in, 97,
fever in 1785-88, 153,
little smallpox in, 544,
Neild’s reforms of, 628

Pulteney, R., Blandford, smallpox, 513

Purples, meaning of, 680

Putrid fever, in the sense of Willis, 16,
in 18th century sense, 120-8, 129-30, 683, 700

Putrid measles, 705

Pylarini, Jacob, on transplantation of smallpox, 465, 476


Quarantine, for plague pressed on the Ministry by Swift, 58 note,
in the cholera of 1831-32, 794, 798, 799, 814, 820

Queensferry North, vaccinations during an epidemic, 585


Radcliffe, John, attends Queen Mary in smallpox, 460 note
Ranby, John, his pamphlet against Jurin, 481 note,
his inoculation practice, 504

Reid, John, enteric fever at Edinburgh, 199

Reid, Seaton, relapsing synocha, 177

Relapsing fever, case of in London 1710, 57,
in 1727-29, 69, 74,
at Edinburgh 1735, 76,
in Gloucestershire in 1794, 156,
in London in 1817, 168, 172,
affinities of, 177,
in Scotland in 1817-19, 174,
in 1827-28, 181,
in London, 182,
in Scotland in 1842-44, 203,
in 1847, 208,
in 1869-71, 210,
in Dublin in 1738, 239,
in 1746-48, 243,
in Ireland in 1799-1801, 450,
in 1817-19, 266,
in 1826, 271-2,
in 1846-7, 289,
not always associated with want, 211

Remittent fever, 68, 69 note, 72,
in London in 1751-55, 122,
Cormack on, 392 note

Reynolds, Revell, epidemic agues of 1780, 366

Rheumatic fever, its relation to dysentery, 782

Rickets in London 18th cent., 756,
relation of to infantile diarrhoea, 766

Rigby, Edward, vaccinations at Norwich, 584

Ripon, fevers at in 1726-28, 72

Roberton, John, vaccination at Manchester, 583,
smallpox after vaccination, 597 note,
measles in Edinburgh 1808, 651,
criticism of Watt, 658

Robertson, Robert, ship fever, 114,
influenza of 1782 in the fleet, 426,
no fatalities in smallpox, 546

Rochdale, fever of 1818, 171

Rogan, Francis, slaughter-houses not noxious, 236 note,
population in Tyrone 1817, 253,
cottiers in same, 255,
famine of 1817, 257,
dysentery and fever of, 258-260,
ratio of attacks, 263,
smallpox in the famine of 1817, 573

Rogers, James E. Thorold, starvation wages 18th cent., 62,
Malthus and high standard of living, 285 note

Rogers, Joseph, criticism of Sydenham, 10,
epidemic in Wadham College, 59,
fevers in Cork 18th cent., 234

Roseola, epidemic, supposed the scarlatina of Sydenham, 681

Rouen, epidemic fever of 1753-4, 121

Royston, William, epidemic agues of 1780 and 1808, 378 note

Rumsey, Henry, epidemic sore-throat in Chesham, 715,
“the croup” in the same, 716

Rush, Benjamin, smallpox after inoculation, 488,
infantile diarrhoea, 758

Russell, Lord John, cost of Irish potato famine, 282

Russell, James B., scarlatina from cows’ milk, 734 note

Ruston, Thomas, antidotes to smallpox, 494 note

Rutty, John, “putrid” fevers in Dublin, 127, 245,
nervous and relapsing fevers, 239, 240, 243,
famine fever of, 1740 244,
agues and horse-colds, 354,
smallpox in Ireland, 543,
malignant during typhus, 549,
throat-distemper of 1743, 693

Ryan, Dennis, dysentery in transports, 784



St Andrews, smallpox in 1818, 575,
dysentery in 1736, 778

St Kilda, strangers’ cold, 431

Salford, infantile diarrhoea, 761-2, 765 note,
cholera of 1832, 828

Salisbury, smallpox in 18th cent., 528,
cholera in 1832, 829,
in 1849, 847

Sanderson, J. B., diphtheritic membrane, 740 note

Sauvages, F. B. de, his nosology, 670, 678

Scarlatina and diphtheria, 18th cent., 678,
simplex of Sydenham, 680,
of Sibbald, 681,
perhaps epidemic roseola, 681 note,
Morton’s view of, 682,
anginosa at Edinburgh, 684,
at Plymouth, 684,
popular name of epidemic sore-throat, 687, 697, 701,
Cotton’s name for epidemic sore-throat in 1748, 698,
called miliary, 688, 703,
diagnosis from anomalous measles, 649, 705,
mild at Ipswich in 1771, 708,
anginosa in London in, 1777 708,
Withering on, 711,
Heberden on, 712 note,
Willan’s statistics 1786, 714,
Rumsey on, 715,
epidemic period 1796-1805, 719,
mildness of type 1805-31, 722-5,
modern statistics of, 726,
incidence on age and sex, 729,
range of fatality, 730,
fatalities at home and in hospital, 730,
alleged influence of drought, 731,
maximum in late autumn, 731,
question of miasma, 732,
uncertainty of its contagion, 733,
in children’s hospitals, 733,
from cows’ milk, 734,
as a septic disease, 735

Schacht, Lucas, fevers of Leyden, 332

Schultz, Simon, buying the smallpox, 473

Scurvy, supposed prevalence of on land in 17th cent., 1, 317, 319

Sedgley, cholera of 1832, 825

Seven ill years, fevers of in Scotland, 47-52

Sewerage of London 858,
of Lancashire towns, 209,
defects of in new mining townships, 220, 845

Shapter, Thomas, influenza contagious, 387,
Exeter, cholera in 1832, 829

Sharkey, Edmond, Asiatic cholera in 1837 at Berehaven, 834 note

Sheffield, vital statistics of 17th cent., 58,
epidemic sore-throat 18th cent., 696, 704,
diarrhoea during cholera, 842 note,
cholera in 1849, 848

Ships, cholera in, 826, 857,
fever in, see Navy,
influenza in, 425-31

Short, Thomas, scarlatina in 1759, 704

Sibbald, Sir Robert, diseases of Scots 17th cent., 48,
bleeding in smallpox, 447,
scarlatina, 681

Simon, Sir John, inquiry on diphtheria, 739,
general principles of sanitation, 834,
report on Newcastle cholera in 1853, 849

Simple continued fever, a common form in the epidemic of 1817-19, 168-174,
relation of to relapsing fever, 177, 272,
in London 1826-28, 182,
in Bristol, 189 note, 176,
recent statistics of, 212, 216, 296

Simpson, Sir J. Y., cholera of 1832, 815 note

Simpson, William, choleraic season of 1678, 333

Sims, James, London typhus in 1786, 138,
Tyrone fevers 18th cent., 127, 246,
smallpox, 543,
London scarlatina in 1786, 713,
in 1798, 719

Skibbereen, dysentery in 1826, 273,
exports of food from, 280,
sicknesses of the great famine, 286, 287, 288

Slatholm, Dr, against blooding and cooling in smallpox, 447,
smallpox transferred to a sheep, 475

Sligo, cholera of 1832, 818

Sloane, Sir Hans, Jamaica earthquakes, 415,
procures account of inoculation, 465,
advises the king on same, 469

Smallpox, references to before 1660, 434,
after the Restoration, 437,
alleged increase of fatality, 439,
alleged mildness in infants, 441,
largely a disease of adults in 17th cent., 443,
the cooling regimen in, 445,
Morton on the causes of a severe type, 451,
marks of a recent epidemic visible, 454,
estimate of the numbers marked by in 17th cent., 455,
London deaths by from 1661 to 1700, 456,
in the country at end of 17th cent., 458,
death of Queen Mary from haemorrhagic form of, 458,
epidemic in 1710, 461,
a trouble in great houses, 462,
houses for, kept by nurses, 463,
at Boston, New England, in 1721, 485, 626,
at Charleston, 490,
hospital in London for, 505,
at Blandford, 513,
in the Foundling Hospital, 514,
table of epidemics of from 1721 to 1729, 518,
at Hertford in 1721, 519,
at Plymouth in 1724, 520,
at Aynho, 520,
at Hastings, 521,
at Nottingham, 522,
at Edinburgh 18th cent., 523,
at Northampton, 524,
at Boston, 525, 540,
at Kilmarnock, 526,
intervals between epidemics of, 527,
various epidemics 1751-53, 529,
London deaths 1721-60, 531,
weekly deaths in 1752, 532,
among London infants, 533,
London deaths 1761-1800, 535,
18th cent. statistics of Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Carlisle and Glasgow, 536-40,
in parishes of Scotland 18th cent., 541,
in Ireland, 543,
in the army and navy, 543,
wide range of fatality, 544,
comparison of epidemics at Chester and Warrington, 550,