An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the winter and spring of the year 1803 / [William Falconer].

Falconer, William, 1744-1824

Date:: 1803

Credit: An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the winter and spring of the year 1803 / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$very general for about eighteen days, and was almost over by the beginning of November. It reached England early in November, and passed through England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, and Ireland; but I could not find, after repeated inquiries, that it ever reached the West-Indies, the Continent of America, Sweden, Denmark, or the northern parts of Europe. From a general state of fa&s, I found that none were attacked with the epidemic while at sea ; but as soon as the vessels arrived at any port in which the disease prevailed, few escaped. Those seamen, likewise, who were seized with the epidemic on land, soon recovered on going out to sea ; and if they came into port where the disease was present, ■* \ some relapsed.5 u 2. In 1782, a gentleman ill of the Influenza came from London to Chester on the 24th of May* A lady into whose family he came, and to whom he is since married, was seized with the distemper on the 26th of the same month. The second family which I heard of in Chester, was attacked on the 30th of May; the wife of this patient sickened on the 3d of June. Both of these families, which were nnmerous, had the distemper soon after the first seizure of each, and before I heard that any other family was attacked. About the 5th or 7th of June, it began to spread generally through the town, that$