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 CHAPTER IX. ASIATIC CHOLERA. Asiatic Cholera at Sunderland in October, 1831 796 Extension of Cholera to the Tyne, December, 1831 802 The Cholera of 1832 in Scotland 805 The Cholera of 1832 in Ireland 816 The Cholera of 1832 in England 820 The Cholera of 1848-49 in Scotland 835 The Cholera of 1849 Ireland 839 The Cholera of 1849 in England 840 The Cholera of 1853 at Newcastle and Gateshead 849 The Cholera of 1854 in England 851 The Cholera of 1853-54 in Scotland and Ireland 855 The Cholera of 1865-66 856 The Antecedents of Epidemic Cholera in India 860 Note on Cerebro-Spinal Fever 863 CHAPTER I. TYPHUS AND OTHER CONTINUED FEVERS. It was remarked by Dr James Lind, in 1761, that a judicious synopsis of the writings on fevers, in a chronological sense, would be a valuable book: it would bring to light, he was fain to expect, treasures of knowledge; “and perhaps the influence of a favourite opinion, or of a preconceived fancy, on the writings of some even of our best instructors, such as Sydenham and Morton, would more clearly be perceived[1].” Lind himself was the person to have delivered such a history and criticism. He was near enough to the 17th century writers on fevers to have entered correctly into their points of view; while so far as concerned the detection of theoretical bias or preconceived fancies, he had shown himself a master of the art in his famous satire upon the “scorbutic constitution,” a verbal or mythical construction which had been in great vogue for a century and a half, and was still current, at the moment when Lind destroyed it, in the writings of Boerhaave and Haller. A judicious historical view of the English writings on fevers, such as this 18th century critic desired to see, may now be thought superfluous. The theories, the indications for treatment, the medical terms, have passed away and become the mere objects of a learned curiosity. But the actual history of the old fevers, of their kinds, their epidemic prevalence, their incidence upon rich or poor, upon children or adults, their fatality, their contagiousness, their connexion with the seasons and other