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28 Document No. 30. [Session
the English Channel denotes the difference in the facilities
then as compared with the present. In 1729 and 1730
there was another notable epidemic, appearing after severe
and changeable weather at the beginning of 1729, and
traversing the whole of Europe during the summer, autumn
and the commencement of winter. It varied its general
characters in different countries and different seasons.
(Copeland.) It was frequently not ushered in with chills
or rigors, but by lassitude, depression, headache, pains in
the loins and limbs, oppression at the chest, anxiety or
pain in the epigastrium, coryza, severe cough, sore throat
and heat of skin, the pulse being quick and irregular.
Swellings of the parotids or of the tonsils were not infre-quent,
and the pulse was often remarkably small and weak.
In other cases horripilations, vertigo, and rigors ushered
in the disease, which sometimes assumed a severe charac-ter,
delirium frequently supervening. When the complaint
was simple it often terminated from the fourth to the
seventh day by epistaxis, or by a slight expectoration of
blood, or by the hsemorrhoidal or menstrual flux. In the
more complicated cases, congestion of the brain or lungs,
and dropsy of the chest frequently occurred, chronic bron-chitis,
consumption, and various other diseases appearing
as sequelae. It was most dangerous to the aged, and to
those who had previous disorder of the respiratory organs.
Coming on down to 1775, we learn that the catarrhal
epidemic occurred in Europe, and, like in its previous visi-tations,
was not confined to the human species, but affected
also the lower animals, often commencing with them. It
broke out during a dry and warm summer, following a
mild and very dry spring. This was the first epidemic
which received the name of influenza, it having been so
named in Italy from the belief that it was due to aerial
influences. In the United States, according to Noah Web-
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| Full Text | 28 Document No. 30. [Session the English Channel denotes the difference in the facilities then as compared with the present. In 1729 and 1730 there was another notable epidemic, appearing after severe and changeable weather at the beginning of 1729, and traversing the whole of Europe during the summer, autumn and the commencement of winter. It varied its general characters in different countries and different seasons. (Copeland.) It was frequently not ushered in with chills or rigors, but by lassitude, depression, headache, pains in the loins and limbs, oppression at the chest, anxiety or pain in the epigastrium, coryza, severe cough, sore throat and heat of skin, the pulse being quick and irregular. Swellings of the parotids or of the tonsils were not infre-quent, and the pulse was often remarkably small and weak. In other cases horripilations, vertigo, and rigors ushered in the disease, which sometimes assumed a severe charac-ter, delirium frequently supervening. When the complaint was simple it often terminated from the fourth to the seventh day by epistaxis, or by a slight expectoration of blood, or by the hsemorrhoidal or menstrual flux. In the more complicated cases, congestion of the brain or lungs, and dropsy of the chest frequently occurred, chronic bron-chitis, consumption, and various other diseases appearing as sequelae. It was most dangerous to the aged, and to those who had previous disorder of the respiratory organs. Coming on down to 1775, we learn that the catarrhal epidemic occurred in Europe, and, like in its previous visi-tations, was not confined to the human species, but affected also the lower animals, often commencing with them. It broke out during a dry and warm summer, following a mild and very dry spring. This was the first epidemic which received the name of influenza, it having been so named in Italy from the belief that it was due to aerial influences. In the United States, according to Noah Web- |
