Chapter VII: Scarlatina and Diphtheria

Nosological difficulties in the earlier history 678

The Throat-distemper of New England, 1735-36 685

Angina maligna in England from 1739 691

An epidemic of Throat-disease in Ireland, 1743 693

Malignant Sore-throat in Cornwall, 1748 694

Fothergill’s Sore-throat with Ulcers, 1746-48 696

“Scarlet Fever” at St Albans, 1748 698

Epidemics of Sore-throat with Scarlet rash in the period
between Fothergill and Withering 699

Scarlatina anginosa in its modern form, 1777-78 708

History of Scarlatina after the Epidemic of 1778 713

Scarlatina (1788) and Diphtheria (1793-94) described by the
same observer 715

Scarlatinal Epidemics, 1796-1805 719

Scarlatina since the beginning of Registration, 1837 726

Reappearance of Diphtheria in 1856-59 736

Conditions favouring Diphtheria 744

CHAPTER VIII.

INFANTILE DIARRHOEA, CHOLERA NOSTRAS, AND DYSENTERY.

Summer Diarrhoea of Infants in London, 17th century 748

Summer Diarrhoea of Infants, 18th century 754

Modern Statistics of Infantile Diarrhoea 758

Causes of the high Death-rates from Infantile Diarrhoea 763

Cholera Nostras 768

Dysentery in the 17th and 18th centuries 774

Dysentery in the 19th century 785