Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion : in a letter addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar, M.D.

  • Millar, Richard, active 1818-1833.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion : in a letter addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sion of the important fact, that during the last six years, that is, since 1812, the disease in ques- tion, has been continually gaining ground among us, in Glasgow, and its neighbourhood. What is sufficiently remarkable, it appears before this period, for a short while, to have been almost en- tirely extinct. On consulting the books of the Infirmary, a record of all others affording the most accurate data for learning the prevalence of any particular malady, at any particular time, among the poorer part of our population, I find that only 16 cases of the distemper were admit- ted into the establishment, during the whole cur- rency of the year 1812. The most of these cases, too, did not occur, during their usual season, the winter, but during the summer months. This last fact has been the more forcibly impres- sed on my memory, in consequence of a particular circumstance, that having been appointed that year to deliver Clinical Lectures on the medi- cal diseases of the Infirmary, I found the utmost difficulty in procuring an instance of continued Fever, for illustrating to my pupils the ordinary course of symptoms, together with the usual me- thods of cure. Nay, more, having repaired to our Faculty Hall, in expectation of procuring a spe- cimen, by help of some of my brethren, I return-