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CHAPTER I. |
TYPHUS AND OTHER CONTINUED FEVERS. |
The Epidemic Fever of 1661, according to Willis | 4 |
Sydenham’s epidemic Constitutions | 9 |
Typhus Fever perennial in London | 13 |
The Epidemic Constitutions following the Great Plague | 17 |
The Epidemic Fever of 1685-86 | 22 |
Retrospect of the great Fever of 1623-25 | 30 |
The extinction of Plague in Britain | 34 |
Fevers to the end of the 17th Century | 43 |
Fevers of the seven ill years in Scotland | 47 |
The London Fever of 1709-10 | 54 |
Prosperity of Britain, 1715-65 | 60 |
The Epidemic Fevers of 1718-19 | 63 |
The Epidemic Fevers of 1726-29: evidence of Relapsing Fever | 66 |
The Epidemic Fever of 1741-42 | 78 |
Sanitary Condition of London under George II. | 84 |
The Window-Tax | 88 |
Gaol-Fever | 90 |
Circumstances of severe and mild Typhus | 98 |
Ship-Fever | 102 |
Fever and Dysentery of Campaigns: War Typhus, 1742-63 | 107 |
Ship-Fever in the Seven Years’ War and American War | 111 |
The “Putrid Constitution” of Fevers in the middle third of the 18th Century | 120 |
Miliary Fever | 128 |
Typhus Fever in London, 1770-1800 | 133 |
Typhus in Liverpool, Newcastle and Chester in the last quarter of the 18th century | 140 |
Fever in the Northern Manufacturing Towns, 1770-1800 | 144 |
Typhus in England and Scotland generally, in the end of the 18th century | 151 |
Fevers in the Dearth of 1799-1802 | 159 |
Comparative immunity from Fevers during the War and high prices of 1803-15 | 162 |
The Distress and Epidemic Fever (Relapsing) following the Peace of 1815 and the fall of wages | 167 |
The Epidemic of 1817-19 in Scotland: Relapsing Fever | 174 |
The Relapsing Fever of 1827-28 | 181 |
Typhoid or Enteric Fever in London, 1826 | 183 |
Return of Spotted Typhus after 1831: “Change of Type.” Distress of the Working Class | 188 |
Enteric Fever mixed with the prevailing Typhus, 1831-42 | 198 |
Relapsing Fever in Scotland, 1842-44 | 203 |
The “Irish Fever” of 1847 in England and Scotland | 205 |
Subsequent Epidemics of Typhus and Relapsing Fevers | 208 |
Relative prevalence of Typhus and Enteric Fevers since 1869 | 785 |
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CHAPTER IX. |
ASIATIC CHOLERA. |
Asiatic Cholera at Sunderland in October, 1831 | 796 |
Extension of Cholera to the Tyne, December, 1831 | 802 |
The Cholera of 1832 in Scotland | 805 |
The Cholera of 1832 in Ireland | 816 |
The Cholera of 1832 in England | 820 |
The Cholera of 1848-49 in Scotland | 835 |
The Cholera of 1849 Ireland | 839 |
The Cholera of 1849 in England | 840 |
The Cholera of 1853 at Newcastle and Gateshead | 849 |
The Cholera of 1854 in England | 851 |
The Cholera of 1853-54 in Scotland and Ireland | 855 |
The Cholera of 1865-66 | 856 |
The Antecedents of Epidemic Cholera in India | 860 |
Note on Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 863 |