Memoirs of the Medical Society of London; Instituted in the Year 1773 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789. Excerpt: ... ARTICLE XXXVII Some Remarks on the Influenza that appeared in Spring 1782, in a Letter /oDr. Lettsom, by R. Hamilton, M. D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Member of the Medical and Philosophical Societies of Edinburgh, and of the Medical Society of London. Read November 27, 1787. S I R, AT your desire I sit down to inform you of the result of my practice, and the few observations I made on the influenza of Although this, and the following Article, have lain some years with the Medical Society, the want of opportunity having hitherto prevented their publication; yet the subject on which they treat is no less interesting to posterity, than if they had been printed much earlier; and appearances of a catarrhal affection resembling the influenza, on which they treat, having recently occurred, the present time was deemed eligible, more especially as no late miscellaneous publication contains a complete account of the disease. i$2. Though I know it can add little to what you are alrekdy in possession of, yet the desire I seel for the encouragement of every scheme which tends to the improvement of that science, into the principles of which I have been initiated, induces me the more readily to add my mite. From the 1st of January this year, till about the end of May, throughout most places in the kingdom, the weather was uncommonly unfavourable. Snow, frost, rain, wind, lightning, and thunder to a great degree, by turns constituted the weather in the neighbourhood where I remained. The spring was consequently cold, and the tillage of the land was retarded by the almost constant rains that about this time marked the season. With regard to the time os its first appearance in the places where I then practised, as far as I could learn, it was in the firs...