summary of 18th cent. history, 556,
London deaths by from 1801 to 1837, 568,
Glasgow deaths 1801-1812, 569,
epidemic of 1817-19, 571,
the crystalline form of, 574-7,
at Norwich in 1819, 578,
in Christ’s Hospital, 581,
the epidemic of 1825-26, 593,
so-called “secondary,” 597,
a generation of in Glasgow, 597,
in Limerick 1830-40, 601,
the epidemic of 1837-40, 604,
legislation for in 1840, 606,
ages of at Paris and Glasgow compared, 611,
more adults attacked abroad than in Britain, 612,
London deaths by from 1837 to 1893, 613,
table for England, 614,
comparison of the epidemics of 1837-40 and 1871-72, 615,
has almost ceased in rural parts, 616,
London’s recent share of, 617,
recent rates of fatality from, 618,
in Ireland since 1864, 620,
in Scotland since 1855, 622,
varying ratios of children and adults attacked at various periods of history, 622-7,
reason why fewer children attacked in epidemic of 1871-72, 627,
Watt’s doctrine of substitution applied to, 629

Smollett, Tobias, sick bay of the ‘Cumberland,’ 107 note

Snow, John, water-borne cholera, 852, 854

Southampton, a 17th cent, autopsy at, 316

Spalding, diphtheria, 739, 740

Spelman, Sir Henry, on burials, 37

Spotted fever in 17th and 18th cent., 13,
universal in 1623, 31,
cases in Archbishop’s family, 64,
Arbuthnot on, 67,
return of after 1831, 188, 277

Stark, James, sex-fatality in whooping-cough, 672 note

Stewart, Frances, her beauty after smallpox, 453

Stokes, William, Dublin enteric fever in 1826, 187 note

Story, Rev. George, camp sickness at Dundalk, 230-2

Stow, John, irregular building of London out-parishes, 85-6

Strabane, a congested district in 1817, 253,
fever and dysentery in, 259-60, 263,
smallpox in 1817, 573

Stranraer, smallpox in 1829, 600

Streater, Aaron, ague curer, 316

Streeten, R. J. N., influenza of 1837, 387 note

Strother, Edward, London fevers of 1727-29, 68-70

Stroud, tests of cowpox at, 565

Sturges, Octavius, whooping-cough mimetic, 677

Sudell, Nicholas, ague curer, 317

Sunderland, recent typhus in, 214, 217,
cholera begins at, in 1831, 796

Surfeit, meaning of, 775

Sutherland, John, reports on cholera of 1848-49, 837-8, 840

Sutton, Daniel, his method of inoculation, 498

Sweat, the, late reference to by Shakespeare, 311 note

Sweden, early statistics of whooping-cough, 670

Swift, Jonathan, urgent for quarantine, 58 note,
the stinks in his London lodging, 87,
state of Ireland in 1729, 238,
on an ague curer, 325

Sydenham, Thomas, on succession of epidemic types, 4, 631,
his epidemic constitutions, 9,
on intermittents, 11, 302, 314,
on comatose fever, 20,
on depuratory fever, 21,
on the “new fever” of 1685-6, 22, 24, 27,
his theory of subterranean miasmata, 29, 80,
a Scotch disciple of, 48,
on marsh agues, 302,
his position in the bark controversy, 320, 321-2,
on influenza of 1675, 327,
of 1679, 329,
on epidemic agues of 1678-80, 331,
his view of influenza, 399,
his practice in smallpox, 445,
smallpox most fatal to the rich, 450,
on measles in 1670 and 1674, 655,
on pertussis, 677,
on scarlatina, 680,
on diarrhoea in infants, 749,
on cholera nostras, 770,
on dysentery, 776

Symonds, John Addington, Bristol cholera in 1832, 828


Tain, cholera in 1832, 814

Talbor, Sir Richard, ague curer, 318,
his use of bark, 319, 322

Tar-water, in fever, 242,
in smallpox, 546

Taunton, dysentery in 1837, 790

Tavistock, cholera in 1849, 847

Tawton, North, epidemic fever of 1839, 196

Tees valley, enteric fever in, 221

Tewkesbury, burial in coffins, 36

Thackrah, Charles T., Leeds cholera nostras in 1825, 773

Theydon Bois, cholera in 1865, 857

Thompson, Theophilus, his ‘Annals of Influenza,’ 360 note

Thomson, John, smallpox of 1817-19, 575-6

Thoresby, Ralph, on influenza of 1675, 327,
loses his children by smallpox, 458

Thorne, Richard Thorne, diphtheria from cow’s milk, 745 note

Thorp, Dr, Leeds fevers in 1802, 160

Throat distemper, see Scarlatina

Timoni, Emanuel, first writer on inoculation, 463,
visited by La Motraye, 472 note,
his inoculated daughter dies of smallpox, 488

Tiverton, fever of 1741, 80

Torbay, influenza on board ships in, 426

Torthorwald, 18th cent. fevers, 154,
vital statistics, 542

Torrington, strange experience of, in the influenza of 1782, 364

Toynbee, Arnold, the industrial revolution, 145

Tralee, typhus, 259,
cholera in 1849, 840

Trallianus, Alexander, dysenteria rheumatica, 782

Tranent, cholera in 1832, 806

Transplantation of disease, 474

Tristan d’Acunha, strangers’ colds, 431

Tronchin, Theodore, inoculation by blister, 493

Trotter, Thomas, ship fever, 117,
Northumberland fevers 18th cent., 156 note,
smallpox in the navy, 544

Turner, John, influenza of 1712, 340

Tullamore, panic at, from fever of 1817, 262

Tynemouth, cholera in 1849, 846,
in 1853, 850,
in 1854, 851

Type, change of, in continued fever, 2, 189, 203, 277,
in scarlatina, 724, 730

Typhoid fever see Enteric

Typhus, see also Simple Continued, Nervous, Putrid, Miliary, Pestilential, War, Gaol, Ship and Workhouse fevers.
Perennial in London in 17th and 18th cent., 13, 67,
epidemic of 1685-6 identified as, 27,
the type of universal fever in 1623-4, 31,
corresponds to the malignant fever of 1694, 44,
among children at Bristol in 1696, 47,
in Scotland at end of 17th cent., 48, 49,
at Paris in 1700, 53,
a case in London in 1709, 53,
in Chester Castle in 1716, 60,
or synochus at York in 1718, 63,
in 1728, 73,
at Plymouth in 1735, 77,
the type in the English epidemic of 1741-42, 83,
and in the Irish, 243,
circumstances of severe type of, 98-102, 290,
relation of to dysentery, 108, 231, 792,
in Lettsom’s dispensary practice, 136,
identified by Hunter in London with gaol or hospital fever, 138,
described by Sims in 1786, 138,
by Willan in 1799, 139,
by Currie at Liverpool, 141,
at Newcastle, 142, 156 note,
at Chester, 143,
at Leeds, 146, 160,
at Carlisle, 147,
at Manchester, 149, 157,
at Lancaster, 151,
at Whitehaven, 152,
in England generally 1782-85, 153,
in Scotland, 154, 161,
reference to by Robert Burns, 154 note,
epidemic of 1799-1802, 160,
in Ireland, 248,
epidemic of in fiction in 1811, 162 note,
decline of in second period of French war, 163, 167,
epidemic of 1817-19, in England, 168,
rare in the Scotch epidemic of same years, 175,
in the Irish epidemic, 258,
in Galway in 1822, 270,
the common type of continued fever from 1831 to 1848, 188-198,
the epidemic of 1847 in England, 205,
in Scotland, 208, 839 note,
in Ireland, 289-92,
of the Lancashire cotton famine, 209,
prevalence of relative to enteric, 211,
recent decrease of, 214, 606,
recent highest death-rates, 214, 217,
mistaken for typhoid, 214,
table of for Scotland, 216,
for Ireland, 296

Tyrone, over-population in, 254,
effects of the famine of 1817-19, 264


Ulverston, smallpox in 1816, 573

Uxbridge, measles in 1801, 649


Vaccinal Syphilis, real nature of, 562 note

Vaccination, rival of inoculation, 557,
its pathological nature, 559-562,
tests of its efficacy, 564,
approved by the State, 567,
extent of its practice to 1825, 582-6,
Gregory on the effect of upon the London smallpox of, 1825 595,
reasons for treating it as irrelevant to the epidemiology of smallpox, 596,
prejudices of working class against, 606-7,
made compulsory in 1853 on the precedent of 1840, 610,
of adults, or re-vaccination, common on the Continent sooner than in Britain, 611-3
see also Cowpox

Vagrancy in Irish famines, 244, 261, 267

“Variolae Vaccinae,” figurative name of cowpox, 563

Ventilation of gaols, 94,
of ships, 118.
See also Window-tax.

Verdier, Jean, vaccination incorrect in principle, 587

Vibrios in cholera, 827 note

Virchow, Rudolph, dysentery and typhus, 108 note,
season of epidemic typhoid in Berlin, 217

Voltaire, M. de, his mythical account of inoculation in Circassia, 473 note


Wagstaffe, William, objects to inoculation, 478, 607

Wakefield, dysentery in asylum, 787

Wakley, James, carries Bill against inoculation, 607

Walker, George A., London graveyards, 87

Walker, John, “vaccinates” with smallpox, 590

Walker, Patrick, sickness in the seven ill years, 50,
epidemic agues in Scotland, 341

Wall, John, fever of 1741, 83,
epidemic sore-throat of 1748, 701-2,
relation of same to murrain, 736 note

Wall, Martin, Oxford typhus in 1785, 153

Walpole, Horace, on middle-class comfort, 60,
suffers from nervous fever, 71 note,
influenza of 1743, 350,
horse-cold of 1760, 355,
deaths by sore-throat in 1760, 703

War typhus at Chester in 1716, 60,
at Feckenheim in 1743, 108,
in 1746, 109,
at Paderborn in 1761, 110,
from Peninsular War, 166

Ward, T. Ogier, Wolverhampton cholera, 825

Ware, inoculation after an epidemic, 511

Warren, Dr, of Boston, two forms of influenza in successive seasons, 398 note

Warren, H., scarlatina anginosa in Barbados 1736, 684

Warrington, fevers at in 1773, 148,
smallpox in 1773, 537, 553,
comparison of with Chester as regards infant mortality, 551-5,
cholera of 1832, 829 note

Water from reservoirs, a source of enteric fever, 220 note, 221, and note, 222 note,
a source of cholera, 832, 848,
at Newcastle in 1853, 550,
in London, 853, 859

Water from wells, a source of enteric fever, 219 note,
source of dysentery, 791,
source of cholera, 848,
the Broad St pump, 854,
Theydon Bois, 857

Water in the subsoil, relation to enteric fever, 217, 221,
Arbuthnot on its relation to influenza, 403-4, 408,
relation to scarlatina years or season, 731,
to diphtheria at Maidstone, 744,
to cholera at Bilston, 824, 830,
to cholera in east of London 1866, 859,
to cholera in the endemic area of Bengal, 861

Waterford, fever hospital founded in 1799, 249,
statistics of fever 1817-19, 266

Watson, Sir Thomas, epidemic fever of 1837-39 all typhus, 194,
“threw the agy off his stomach,” 318 note,
cause of intestinal irritation in scarlatina, 697 note,
rarity of dysentery, 790

Watson, Sir William, peeling of skin after influenza, 351,
inoculation trials at the Foundling, 500, 503,
smallpox in the Foundling, 514, 550,
putrid measles in same, 705,
dysentery in 1762, 779

Watt, Robert, Glasgow vital statistics, 539, 569, 654,
vaccination no direct effect on measles fatality, 583,
decline of smallpox, 597,
its place taken by measles, 629, 653-8,
statistics of whooping-cough, 675,
meaning of “bowel-hive,” 758 note

Watts, Giles, mildness of Sutton’s inoculation, 499

Webster, Noah, his theory of influenza, 405-7,
influenza of 1781 in America, 410,
influenza at sea, 428,
fatality of measles, 645,
insanitary state of American towns, 685,
angina of cats in Philadelphia &c., 719 note

West, Charles, nature of infantile remittent fever, 5,
exanthematic typhus, 189,
no enteric cases in 1837-8, 194

West Ham, diphtheria, 742

Wharekauri, strangers’ cold, 432

Whitaker, Tobias, smallpox more fatal after the Restoration, 439,
blooding in smallpox, 447,
prevention of pock-pits, 456

White, J., fevers in the navy 17th cent., 104

White, William, public health of York improves, 63

Whitehaven, gaol and ship fever, 114,
fevers, 152, 156,
few children die of them, 571,
fatality of smallpox, 538, 547,
vaccination supersedes inoculation, 582, 586,
cholera in 1832, 829

Whitmore, H., influenzas and agues of 1658-9, 313, 362,
opposes blooding in influenza, 381 note

Whooping-cough called “the kink” in medieval book, 666,
little regarded till 18th cent., 668,
apparent increase of London deaths, 669,
nosologically recognized in Sweden, 670,
various British statistics 18th cent., 670,
recent statistics, 671,
probable cause of higher fatality in females, 672,
now heads list of its class, 673,
as a sequel of other diseases, 674,
its pathology, 676,
partly contagious by mimicry, 677

Whytt, Robert, influenza of 1758, 353,
smallpox fatal in 1758, 547

Wick, cholera of 1832, 815

Wilde, Sir W. R., census of Ireland after the famine, 292

Willan, Robert, London typhus in 1796-99, 139,
agues, 373,
measles, 648,
18th cent. throat distempers all scarlatinal, 679, 737,
the Foundling epidemic of 1763, 705,
scarlatina of 1786, 713,
of 1796-1801, 719,
uncertainty of scarlatinal contagion, 733,
dysentery in 1800, 785

Williams, Robert, on 17th cent. agues and dysenteries in London, 304 note,
electrical theory of influenza, 406 note

Willis, Thomas, epidemic fever of 1661, 4-7,
cases and postmortem of, 6,
scale of malignity in fevers, 16,
epidemic agues of 1657-58, 314,
refers to bark in 1660, 320,
smallpox at Oxford in 1649 and 1654, 437,
less danger from smallpox in childhood, 441,
opinion on Duke of York’s children, 451,
whooping-cough left to nurses, 667,
convulsions, 749,
cholera nostras of 1670, 772,
symptoms of dysentery, 776

Wilson, Andrew, bilious colic, 771 note,
Newcastle dysentery, 780

Window-tax, effects of on health, 88,
history of, 88

Wintringham, Clifton, typhus in Yorkshire in 1718, 63,
nervous fevers, 72, 73,
agues, 341,
influenza of 1729, 345,