Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at a more remote date), there was a general failure of the potato crop. The same year three forms of epizootic disease were very prevalent among cattle, the lung disease (pleuro-pneu- monia), the hoof disease (the “pustular epi- zootic”), and the “typhoid epidemic.” A fatal “distemper” also attacked pigs. The weather in spring was dry, in summer generally wet, and the moisture of June was unparalleled. Tamme began to be felt among the labourers, who were generally housed in wretched and filthy hovels, which barely afforded protection from wind and rain. Scarlet fever, erysipelas, and smallpox, became frequent in several dis- tricts, and typhus broke out, the disease being marked by very early prostration of strength, insensibility, profuse petechise, and coma. A purpuric eruption, moreover, was a frequent con- comitant of gastric fever, and also accompanied a manifestly scorbutic affection of the mouth and gums, which was common among young children. Towards the close of the year, “ Dr. O'Brien, of Naas, observed a peculiar fever in that locality, which he traced to the use of diseased potatoes. It was characterised by rose-coloured