A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Marlborough's, no fewer than twenty- feven. This is allowed to be one of the widefi: fpreading epidemics in the whole catalogue of difeafes. It is not confined to thofe on land 3 at fea it rages with equal fury. The accounts we have from the fleet, confirm this remark. It is faid, that 400 of one (hip's company, and 300 of another, came lately on more ill of it; nor does it feem to be confined to the human fpecies ; for it is faid horfes are in like manner furTer- ers, as well as fheep; but this I will not give for a fact. The lan: time it made its ap- pearance is yet frefh in the memory of every one; it is but a few years ago; at that time it fpread in a fhort period over all Europe ; I am told it has at prefent reached the Continent; and there is fome reafon to believe, from (he experience we have