Historic sketch of the causes, extent, and mortality of contagious fever epidemic in Ireland in 1741 : and during 1817, 1818, and 1819 ; together with a review of the causes, medical and statistical, productive of epidemic fever in Ireland / by William Harty.

  • Harty, William, 1781-1854.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Historic sketch of the causes, extent, and mortality of contagious fever epidemic in Ireland in 1741 : and during 1817, 1818, and 1819 ; together with a review of the causes, medical and statistical, productive of epidemic fever in Ireland / by William Harty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    \1 addressing you; but as one of your first official acts was to demand medical advice in the emer- gency of a progressive epidemic, and one of your last to send a physician to each province to inves- tigate the causes and progress of fever, I am jus- tified, I should hope, in concluding that you do not think medical judgment and medical exer- tions unworthy of regard, and consequently that you will receive with indulgence, if not with fa- vour, the opinions of one, who has had some op- portunities of judging, and who advances those opinions with the sincerest love for truth, and with the most anxious desire to benefit that coun- try, for whose character you have manifested such regard, and for her misfortunes such sympathy. The manifestation of feelings, so creditable to any man, so honourable in the minister for Ireland, has removed all remaining reluctance on ray part to address the distinguished individual who entertains them, because I am persuaded he must view the subject of fever, as one of great im- portance to Ireland, as well from the calamitous effects produced by the disease, as from the peculiar nature of the causes in which it originates, and must, therefore, be solicitous to obtain every spe- cies of information, which may enable him to act most beneficially for the country. The manifes- tation of such feelings has also satisfied my mind, that the minister for Ireland is not to be ranked