A violent epidemic of influenza had just spread through the settlements, and hardly a person was unaffected.
Purchas, theepidemic proved less deadly than had at one time seemed inevitable; but its appearance showed the unwisdom of combining a public hospital with an educational establishment.
In 1818 a severe epidemic of small-pox prevailed, and fresh doubts were thrown on the efficacy of vaccination, in part apparently owing to the bad quality of the vaccine lymph employed.
But the epidemic of speculation in the reign of the railway king was comparatively harmless and reasonable when compared with the midsummer madness of the South Sea scheme.
The civilized world is visited with this epidemic of project and speculation from time to time.
Even a political enemy, Governor Harvey, described him as skilled in the diagnosis and therapy of epidemic diseases.
Because he alone in the colony was considered capable of treating epidemic diseases, a court sentence against him for cattle theft stood suspended early in the 1630's and clemency was sought on his behalf.
Earlier, in 1667, a sailor with smallpox, if the contemporary account can be accepted, landed at Accomack and was solely responsible for the outbreak of a terrible epidemic on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Early sources do make reference to numerous deaths from it at sea and even to anepidemic of it at Jamestown before 1610, but subsequent notices are infrequent and of questionable validity.
A measlesepidemic during the last decade of the century may actually have been smallpox as the two diseases were often confused by contemporaries.
The history and symptoms of some epidemic diseases, such as cholera and influenza, are not inconsistent with the hypothesis that they are caused by the sudden development of animalcules from ova in the blood.
So far then for the consideration of animalcular structure: let us now more particularly enquire into their destructive habits, and their functions, inasmuch {133} as they may be supposed capable of engendering epidemic diseases and fever.
The nebulae before Lord Ross's discovery were to the astronomer what the materies of epidemic and infectious disease are to medical men.
Having no known relation to the preceding is epidemic dropsy, the first recorded outbreak of which occurred in Calcutta in the year 1877.
That it may have local and epidemic causes, as well as that depending on personal transmission, is not disputed.
It makes full allowance for other causes besides personal transmission, especially for epidemic influences.
Barron's statement of the children's dying of peritonitis in an epidemic of puerperal fever at the Philadelphia Hospital (Oct.
Above all, what becomes of the theological aspect of the question, when he asserts that a practitioner was "only unlucky in meeting with the epidemic cases?
A young practitioner, contrary to advice, examined the body of a patient who had died from puerperal fever; there was no epidemic at the time; the case appeared to be purely sporadic.
The year 1735 was rendered sadly memorable by the epidemic of the terrible disease known as "throat distemper," and regarded by many as the same as our "diphtheria.
If the disease prevails extensively over a wide region of country, it is attributed without dispute to anepidemic influence.
It is granted that the disease may be produced and variously modified by many causes besides contagion, and more especially by epidemic and endemic influences.
As chaplain to the garrison, he had won the esteem and praise of many, including General Sherman, for his devotion during an epidemic of yellow-fever, and he was now rector of the only Episcopal parish.
The resurrections of the springtime cause an epidemic of gardening fever that prevails until intenser sunshine discourages exertions.
When in the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878 I lost my eldest daughter, my good children, David and Lula, gave me their baby Bessie to comfort my sorrow.
During our stay in Le Croc, in spite of its being a breathing time, and of every kind of care, many men had been ailing, and the sickness ended by taking the form of a somewhat serious epidemic of smallpox.
I never took my ships there without an epidemic of influenza colds breaking out, and affecting three or four hundred men in each crew.
At Halifax, whither I went to meet the officer commanding the British naval station, we were put into quarantine on account of three convalescents, relics of the epidemic we had been suffering from.
It is stated that the epidemic was of a most malignant type.
Certainly, the Commission is well within the mark in saying, "It is quite clear that a very large number of lives must have been saved in Hubli by inoculations during the whole course of the epidemic there.
On no occasion was there even a suspicion aroused of an epidemic having been produced by any of the above-mentioned institutes, or by those tens of thousands of operations against cholera performed in India.
Every Fourth of July anepidemic occurs, because these bacilli are carried deeply into wounds before wads from blank cartridges.
In 1894, cholera appeared among the native population of Lucknow, in the form of an epidemic distinguished by its extreme virulence, patients succumbing in the course of a few hours.
Surely this confusion between the total mortality and the case-mortality of an epidemic disease is a very serious offence.
Voisin and Guinon describe an epidemic of diphtheria in the Salpetriere Hospital among idiots and epileptics.
The vacancies, besides, were rapidly filled by fresh invalids brought on shore by the frigate's long-boat, for the epidemic did not seem as yet to decrease or to relax its severity.
The epidemic had not then attacked him; but his own breaking off from all intercourse with the hospital-mates, and with the crew, had prevented his seeking further information.
War seemed to have precipitated an epidemic of furious love-making.
And the cholera was known to be epidemic but a few miles from Lexington.
The peculiar physical phenomena which have been referred to as characterizing epidemic excitement are best illustrated in the dancing manias of the Middle Ages and in the religious revival.
In times of epidemic waves the moral standards of the crowd approach those of the savage.
Perhaps the simplest form of this craze is seen in the epidemic character of children's games.
We have seen that cruelty and the persecution of the weak by the strong were among the reversionary symptoms of the social epidemic in many instances.
The moral peculiarities of an epidemic are of a similar kind.
The interest in them spread in true epidemic form.
In the late Spanish-American war, for instance, we all felt the war spirit which flowed in epidemic form across the country and engulfed it.
From a medical point of view we should call this epidemic chorea, but its more exact physiology I have already referred to.
The effect of the plague prophylactic was first tested at the Byculla Jail, in Bombay, when the epidemic reached that establishment.
This is called the war spirit and is always of an epidemic character.
It spread in true epidemic form all over the Continent and into England and Scotland, even to America.
Although epidemic 'revivals' have occurred in all countries, some of the best illustrations are seen in America in its early history and to some extent at the present day.
Begun in Paris, the massacre spread in true epidemic form throughout France, until fifteen or twenty thousand people had perished.
In the anti-Semitic mania, we see in its history of criminal horror the dehumanizing effects of the epidemic and the moral reversion which takes place under the influence of social excitement.
There was an epidemic of typhoid fever in some of these ranch-villages, and in one place I saw two dogs hung up in a tree near the road, having been killed on account of hydrophobia.
At one time there was a veritable epidemic of suicides among the Indians near Guachochic, the men hanging themselves with their girdles; one of them even suspended himself by the feet.
In other words, it has been often alleged that the disease was then spread from kingdom to kingdom, and from city to city, by epidemic influences and by general contagion, and not merely by the slower medium of impure sexual connection.
The influenza epidemic of 1918, following the shortage of doctors during the war, revealed the plight of many a rural community without medical service.
Another great service the nurse rendered us was to bring about a veritable epidemic of school-house improvement.
In the summer of 1894 the river achieved notoriety in connection with the epidemic of "Commonweal Armies" that disturbed the public that year.
The sick years played a sad havoc in their numbers by dreadful scourges of epidemic diseases.
This condition resulted in a severe epidemic fever of a very fatal character.
An examination instituted to discover the cause of the epidemic resulted in the discovery of the facts set forth above, and there were removed from the drains and cess-pools more than 550 loads of ordure.
I am aware that an attempt has been made to distinguish the ordinary cholera of this country from the 'epidemic cholera,' by means of the colour or quality of the discharges from the bowels.
It is just my opinion, as a common soldier, that the epidemic of camp diarrhea could have been substantially prevented if all the men had eaten freely of blackberries.
He was even then suffering from the epidemicbefore mentioned, and so weak he could hardly walk.
The convicts have not broken out; but an epidemic of gratuitous mendacity has done so, it appears.
