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

[683] Samuel Foart Simmons, M.D., F.R.S., “Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the year 1788.” _Lond. Med. Journ._ IX. (1788), p. 335. [684] Vaughan May, surgeon to H. M. Ordnance, “Observations on the Influenza as it appeared at Plymouth, in the summer and autumn of the year 1788.” Duncan’s _Med. Commentaries_, Decade 2, vol. iv. p. 363. [685] Falconer, “Influenzae Descriptio, uti nuper comparebat in urbe Bathoniae, mensibus Julio, Augusto et Septembri A.D. 1788.” _Mem. Med. Soc._ III. 25. [686] George Bew, M.D., physician at Manchester, “Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the year 1788.” _Lond. Med. Journ._ IX. (1788), p. 354. “The influenza has been _very_ prevalent,” writes Withering, of Birmingham, to Lettsom, 19 Aug. 1788. _Mem. of Lettsom_, III. 133. [687] Related to Dr Simmons (1. c. p. 346), by Mr Boys, surgeon, of Sandwich, who was told it by his son, a lieutenant on board the ‘Rose.’ [688] In a note to Simmons’ paper, u. s., p. 342. [689] “An Account of an Epidemic Fever that prevailed in Cornwall in the year 1788.” _Lond. Med. Journal_, X. p. 117 (dated Truro, Jan. 26, 1789). [690] Bew, u. s., p. 365. Carmichael Smyth has a similar remark on the influenza of 1782: “This epidemic distemper very soon declined. But it seemed to leave behind it an epidemical constitution which prevailed during the rest of the summer; and the fevers, even in the end of August and beginning of September, assumed a type resembling, in many respects, the fever accompanying the influenza.” [691] A solitary reference occurs to an influenza in 1792, which I have not succeeded in verifying:--B. Hutchinson, “An Account of the Epidemic Disease commonly called the Influenza, which appeared in Nottinghamshire and most other parts of the kingdom in the months of November and December, 1792.” _New. Lond. Med. Journ._, Lond. 1793, II. 174. Cited in the Washington Medical Catalogue. [692] Robert Willan, M.D., _Reports on the Diseases in London, particularly during the years 1796, ’97, ’98, ’99 and 1800_. London, 1801, pp. 76, 253. [693] Published in the _Med. and Phys. Journal_ from August to December, 1803. [694] _Memoirs of the Medical Society_, vol. VI. [695] R. Hooper, M.D., _Obs. on the Epidemic Disease now prevalent in London_. London, 1803. R. Pearson, M.D., _Obs. on the Epid. Catarrhal Fever or Influenza of 1803_. Lond. 1803. [696] J. Herdman, _The prevailing Epid. Disease termed Influenza_. Edin. 1803. [697] W. Falconer, M.D., _The Epidemic Catarrhal Fever commonly called the Influenza, as it appeared at Bath &c._ Bath, 1803. [698] John Nott, M.D., _Influenza as it prevailed in Bristol in Feb.-April, 1803_. Bristol, 1803. [699] _Med. and Phys. Journ._ X. 104. [700] Dr Currie of Chester, _Med. and Phys. Journ._ X. 213. [701] _Ib._ X. 527, quoted by Beddoes from memory, the letter from Navan having been lost. [702] Alvey, _Mem. Med. Soc._ VI. 462. [703] Dr Carrick, of Bristol, in Duncan’s _Annals of Med._ III. Compare the report for Fraserburgh in 1775, supra, p. 360. [704] Frazer, _Med. and Phys. Journ._ X. 206, dated 12 June, 1803. [705] Hirsch cites authorities for influenza in Edinburgh, London, Nottingham and Newcastle in the winter of 1807-8. In Roberton’s monthly reports from Edinburgh (_Med. and Phys. Journ._ XXI.), and Bateman’s quarterly reports from London, I find only common colds recorded. Clarke for Nottingham (_Ed. Med. Surg. Journ._ IV. 429) says catarrh was so general “as to have acquired the name of influenza; but there was no reason to suppose it contagious.” [706] W. Royston, “On a Medical Topography,” _Med. and Phys. J._ XXI. 1809, (Dec. 1808), p. 92: “After the unusual heat of the last summer, the frequency of intermittents in the autumn was increased in the fens of Cambridgeshire to an almost unprecedented degree; and even quadrupeds were not exempt, for distinctly marked cases of _tertian_ were observed in horses. In the year 1780 a similar prevalence of this disease occurred in the same part; and though in an interval of 28 years many and frequent sporadic cases have arisen, yet its universality during that period was suspended. We have to regret that a correct record of the constitution of the year 1780, as applying to this particular district, has not been preserved in such a manner as to admit of a direct comparison with that of