An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza; : as it appeared in the city and environs of Durham, in the month of June, 1782. To which is prefixed, A discourse on the improvement of medical knowledge. / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D. F.R.S. With a letter to the author, on the influenza; as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne. By John Clark, M.D.

  • Leslie, Patrick Dugud, 1751-1783
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[1783]
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Credit: An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza; : as it appeared in the city and environs of Durham, in the month of June, 1782. To which is prefixed, A discourse on the improvement of medical knowledge. / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D. F.R.S. With a letter to the author, on the influenza; as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne. By John Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 43 ] But whilft I maintain that the tempe¬ rature of the air contributed not a little to render the Influenza more fevere and more fatal at Durham than elfewhere, I am by no means of their opinion, who afcribe the production and propa¬ gation of this Epidemic to a particular difpofition of the atmofphere. Various faCts and arguments may be adduced to prove that the late catarrhal fever depended not on any fuch conftitution of the air, but was diffeminated by contagious effluvia, and was as certain¬ ly a fpecific contagion as the mealies or the fmall pox- The aflonifhing rapidi¬ ty with which the Influenza fpread over the greateft part of Europe, is alone fufficient not only to evince its contagi¬ ous nature, but to fhew that the conta¬ gion of Catarrh is, of all others, the moil diffufible. But 1