A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

CHAPTER VII.

SCARLATINA AND DIPHTHERIA. Nosological difficulties in the earlier history 678 The Throat-distemper of New England, 1735-36 685 Angina maligna in England from 1739 691 An epidemic of Throat-disease in Ireland, 1743 693 Malignant Sore-throat in Cornwall, 1748 694 Fothergill’s Sore-throat with Ulcers, 1746-48 696 “Scarlet Fever” at St Albans, 1748 698 Epidemics of Sore-throat with Scarlet rash in the period between Fothergill and Withering 699 Scarlatina anginosa in its modern form, 1777-78 708 History of Scarlatina after the Epidemic of 1778 713 Scarlatina (1788) and Diphtheria (1793-94) described by the same observer 715 Scarlatinal Epidemics, 1796-1805 719 Scarlatina since the beginning of Registration, 1837 726 Reappearance of Diphtheria in 1856-59 736 Conditions favouring Diphtheria 744

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
CHAPTER I. Ch.2
CHAPTER II. Ch.3
CHAPTER III. Ch.4
CHAPTER IV. Ch.5
CHAPTER V. Ch.6
CHAPTER VI. Ch.7
CHAPTER VII. Ch.8
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.9
CHAPTER IX. Ch.10
CHAPTER I. Ch.11
1670. From 1673 to 1676, the constitution was a comatose fever, which Ch.12
1675. In 1678 the “intermittent” constitution returned, having been absent Ch.13
1709. The following shows the rise of the price of the quarter of wheat in Ch.14
600. The infection was virulent during the winter, when Portsmouth was Ch.15
1754. This outbreak was only one of a series; but as it attacked a Ch.16
1755. He had the weekly bills of mortality before him, and he makes Ch.17
chapter II.) are not without value, as showing that the “putrid” or Ch.18
87. It passed as one of the healthiest cities in the kingdom, being far Ch.19
1795. This epidemic must have been somewhat special to Ashton, for it Ch.20
1828. It was a somewhat close repetition of the epidemic of 1817-19, Ch.21
619. In all England, the last quarter of 1846 was also most unhealthy, its Ch.22
1882. The registration district had only 95 deaths from enteric fever Ch.23
CHAPTER II. Ch.24
1655. There were twenty-seven victuallers or other ships riding in Dundalk Ch.25
1818. It was in great part typhus, but towards the end of the epidemic, Ch.26
1835. It will appear from the following (by Geary) that it was largely an Ch.27
1849. After the subsidence of the great epidemic of relapsing and typhus Ch.28
CHAPTER III. Ch.29
1782. It is possible that our own recent experience of a succession of Ch.30
1551. There were certainly two seasons of these agues, 1557 and 1558, the Ch.31
1675. The prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new Ch.32
1686. Sydenham records nothing beyond that date, having shortly after Ch.33
1775. The latter, however, was a summer epidemic, and was naturally less Ch.34
1762. On the other hand the epidemics of autumn, winter or spring in 1729, Ch.35
1782. In the London bills the weekly deaths rose in March, to an average Ch.36
3. After being general, did it occur for some time in single Ch.37
5. If so, is it likely that clothes or fomites conveyed it in any Ch.38
1837. The London bills of mortality compiled by the Parish Clerks’ Company Ch.39
1733. There is nothing to note between Boyle and Arbuthnot; for Willis Ch.40
1647. First catarrh mentioned in American annals, in the same year Ch.41
1655. Influenza in America, in the same year with violent earthquakes Ch.42
1675. Influenza in Europe while Etna was still in a state of Ch.43
1688. Influenza in Europe in the same year with an eruption of Ch.44
1693. Influenza in Europe in the same year with an eruption in Iceland Ch.45
1688. The greatest of them all, that of Smyrna, on the 10th of July, was a Ch.46
CHAPTER IV. Ch.47
2. If the patient be sprung from a stock in which smallpox is wont to Ch.48
3. If the attack fall in the flower of life, when the spirits are Ch.49
4. If the patient be harassed by fever, or by sorrow, love or any Ch.50
5. If the patient be given to spirituous liquors, vehement exercise or Ch.51
6. If the attack come upon women during certain states of health Ch.52
8. If the heating regimen had been carried to excess, or other Ch.53
9. If the patient had met a chill at the outset, checking the Ch.54
11. If the attack happen during a variolous epidemic constitution of Ch.55
14. If the patient be apprehensive as to the result. Ch.56
1. Whether the distemper given by inoculation be an effectual security to Ch.57
2. Whether the hazard of inoculation be considerably less than that of the Ch.58
1200. In 1754 Middleton had done 800 inoculations, with one death. The Ch.59
1725. Forty-three died, “mostly of the smallpox.” Ch.60
1766. The annals kept by Sims of Tyrone overlap those of Rutty by a few Ch.61
introduction of vaccination are still every year inoculated with the Ch.62
introduction into the system;” and this he had been doing in the name of Ch.63
CHAPTER V. Ch.64
1763. Before the date of the Infirmary Book, Watson records an Ch.65
1766. May to July. Many entries in the book; Watson says: Ch.66
1768. Great epidemic, May to July; one hundred and twelve in the Ch.67
1773. Nov. and Dec. Great epidemic: maximum of 130 cases of measles in Ch.68
1774. May. A slight outbreak (8 cases at one time). Ch.69
1783. March and April. Great epidemic: maximum number of cases in the Ch.70
1786. March and April. Maximum on April 5th--measles 47, recovering Ch.71
1802. 8 had measles, one died. Ch.72
CHAPTER VI. Ch.73
CHAPTER VII. Ch.74
1802. It ceased in summer, but returned at intervals during the years Ch.75
introduction of the eruption of scarlatina into his description”--as if Ch.76
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.77
1665. As Sydenham and Willis have left good accounts of the London Ch.78
CHAPTER IX. Ch.79
1831. Two medical men were at the same time commissioned by the Government Ch.80
1832. But in June there was a revival, and thereafter a steady increase to Ch.81
1533. During the same time Gateshead with a population of 26,000, had 433 Ch.82
1306. As in 1832, the infection appeared to die out in the late spring and Ch.83
849. The Irish papers in the second period are by T. W. Grimshaw, _Dub. Ch.84
1710. Engl. transl. of the latter, Lond. 1737. Ch.85
72. The contention of the inspector was that the water-supply had been Ch.86
113. Sir W. Cecil writing from Westminster to Sir T. Smith on 29th Ch.87
437. Heberden’s paper was read at the College, Aug. 11, 1767. Ch.88
1775. October weekly average 323 births 345 deaths Ch.89
1852. This has been reprinted and brought down to date by Dr Symes Ch.90
117. This writer’s object is to show that Liverpool escaped most of the Ch.91
1783. The influenza also began to appear again; and those who had coughs Ch.92
1786. In the middle of this season the influenza returned, and colds and Ch.93
1791. Influenza very bad, especially in London. Ch.94
1808. If it were possible, from authentic documents to compare the history Ch.95
142. In one of his cases Willis was at first uncertain as to the Ch.96
141. In those cases there was no inoculation by puncture or otherwise. Ch.97
1776. _An Introduction to the Plan of the Inoculation Dispensary._ 1778. Ch.98
5136. Price, _Revers. Payments_. 4th ed. I. 353. Ch.99
1799. In a subsequent letter (_Med. Phys. Journ._ V., Dec. 1800), he thus Ch.100
1809. The _Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal_ (VI. 231), in a long review of Ch.101
25. Read 1 July, 1794. Ch.102
1689. Engl. Transl. by Cockburn, 1693, p. 39. Ch.103