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

Thompson, 1891. [657] _Mem. Med. Soc._ III. 34. [658] _Life of Sir Robert Christison_, 2 vols. Edin. 1885, vol. I. (Autobiography), p. 82. [659] For the year 1730, under the date 12 January, p. 172. [660] “An Account of the Epidemic Catarrh of the Year 1782; compiled at the request of a Society for promoting Medical Knowledge.” By Edward Gray, M.D., F.R.S., _Medical Communications_, I. (1784), p. 1. [661] “An Account of the Epidemic Disease called the _Influenza_, of the Year 1782, collected from the observations of several physicians in London and in the Country; by a Committee of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in London.” _Medical Transactions published by the Coll. of Phys. in London_, III. (1785), p. 54. Read at the College, June 25, 1783. [662] John Clark, M.D., _On the Influenza at Newcastle_. Dated 26 May, 1782; Arthur Broughton, _The Influenza or Epid. Catarrh in Bristol in 1782_. London, 1782; W. Falconer, _Account of the Influenza at Bath in May-June, 1782_. Bath, 1782. [663] Gregory, cited by Christison, _Life &c._ I. 84: “I have been told of the haymakers attempting to struggle with the sense of fatigue, but being obliged in a few minutes to lay down their scythes and stretch themselves on the field.” [664] Gray, u. s. p. 107. [665] _The London Medical Journal_, III. (1783), 318. [666] College of Physicians’ Report: “A family which came in the Leeward Islands fleet in the end of September, 1782, was attacked by it in the beginning of October. This family afterwards told the physician who attended them that several of their acquaintances, who came over in the same fleet with them, had been attacked at the same time and in the same manner as themselves.” [667] He had another experience not quite the rule: “Children and old people either escaped this influenza entirely, or were affected in a slight manner.” [668] R. Hamilton, M.D., “Some Remarks on the Influenza in Spring, 1782,” _Mem. Med. Soc._ II. 422. This author had some difficulty in deciding where the influenza ended and the epidemic ague began. [669] _Trans. Col. Phys._ “On the late Intermittent Fevers,” III. 141. Read at the College, 10 Jan., 1785. [670] _Ibid._ p. 168. [671] _Febris Anomala, or the New Disease._ Lond. 1659, p. 1. [672] “Remarks on the Treatment of Intermittents, as they occurred at Hampstead in the Spring of 1781.” By Thomas Hayes, Surgeon. _Lond. Med. Journ._ II. 267. [673] _Epidemicks_ (1777-95), pp. 58, 72, 75, &c. Barker’s annals from 1779 to 1786 are full of references to agues, “bad burning fevers” and the like, but are on the whole too confused to be of much use for history. See the Boston bills under Smallpox. [674] W. Moss, _Familiar Medical Survey of Liverpool_. Liverpool, 1784, p.