Volume 1

Annals of influenza, or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain, 1510-1837 / prepared and edited by Theophilus Thompson.

  • New Sydenham Society
Date:
1852
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Credit: Annals of influenza, or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain, 1510-1837 / prepared and edited by Theophilus Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    A Storm, 2d, at S.S.W.—6, at night, S.AV.—18th and 19th, at night, S.W.—24th, at night, S., 6 4V.—27th, very early in the morning, 4V.N.W. » A great A. B. 5 . 10 . p.m., W.N.W. 1. Mer. highest, 22.30.2 . W.N.W. 1. „ • lowest, 25 . 28.7 . S.W. 3. Day coldest, 21 . 56 . N.W. 1. „ warmest, 3.40. S.S.W. 3. } Mean h. 29 . 4^. Mean h. 47 . The smallpox continues epidemical still. A small catarrhal fever prevails now, attended with a troublesome cough, a slight dyspnoe, loss of appetite, and rheumatic pains of the limbs, and if .more violent than ordinar}, is very apt to end in a pleurisy or peripneumony; but it is easily got the better of by bleeding, a gentle vomit, a blister or two, and the exhi- bition of proper diluents, gentle sudorifics, anodynes now and then between whiles, giving the spt. volat. oleos., &c., as like- wise spt. C. C. and the elixir asthmat. in a draught of small sack whey, a little warm.^^ [In December the coughs, fever, and smallpox continued epidemic, and maniacal disorders more frequent than usual. In January Smallpox prevailed although less fatally, but Catarrhal Fevers invaded many, and severe fits of Asthma were frequent. In March and April Coughs and Peripneumony, and Rheumatic Fevers of a pleuritic kind. In June the only prevalent complaint was languor from the heat of the weather.] “ January, 1733.—At the entrance of this year the frequent rains made the atmosphere ver}^ moist; but the wind coming to blow from the eastward a little afterwards, somewhat dispelled the vapours; and the barometer rising, there was tolerable clear weather from the 16th to the 25th. There was hardly any frost this month; and towards the end the air was very foggy and close, and somewhat warm withal. 21 11 Ul J- IIL “ Rain, 1—4.5 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 15 . 22 . 29 . 30.31 = 2.384.