Chapter IV: Smallpox

Retrospect of earlier epidemics 434

Smallpox after the Restoration 437

Sydenham’s Practice in Smallpox 445

Causes of Mild or Severe Smallpox 450

Pockmarked Faces in the 17th Century 453

The Epidemiology continued to the end of the 17th century 456

Smallpox in London in 1694: the death of the Queen 458

Circumstances of the great Epidemic in 1710 461

Inoculation brought into England 463

The popular Origins of Inoculation 471

Results of the first Inoculations; the Controversy in England 477

Revival of Inoculation in 1740: a New Method 489

The Suttonian Inoculation 495

Extent of Inoculation in Britain to the end of the 18th Century 504

The Epidemiology continued from 1721 517

Smallpox in London in the middle of the 18th century 529

The Epidemiology continued to the end of the 18th century 535

The range of severity in Smallpox, and its circumstances 544

Cowpox 557

Chronology of epidemics resumed from 1801 567

The Smallpox Epidemic of 1817-19 571

Extent of Inoculation with Cowpox or Smallpox, 1801-1825 582

The Smallpox Epidemic of 1825-26 593

A generation of Smallpox in Glasgow 597

Smallpox in Ireland, 1830-40 601

The Epidemic of 1837-40 in England 604

Legislation for Smallpox after the Epidemic of 1837-40 606

Other effects of the epidemic of 1837-40 on medical opinion 610

The age-incidence of Smallpox in various periods of history 622

CHAPTER V.

MEASLES.

Derivation and early uses of the name 632

Sydenham’s description of Measles in London, 1670 and 1674 635

Measles in the 18th century 641

Increasing mortality from Measles at the end of the 18th century 647

Measles in Glasgow in 1808 and 1811-12: Researches of Watt 652

Measles in the Period of Statistics 660

CHAPTER VI.

WHOOPING-COUGH.

Earliest references to whooping-cough 666

Whooping-cough in Modern Times 671

Whooping-cough as a Sequel of other Maladies 674