An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Peter Irving, citizen of the state of New-York.

  • Irving, Peter, 1772-1838.
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1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the sixth day of May, 1794 / by Peter Irving, citizen of the state of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( « ) part of Europe in fucceffion.* In 1789 it appeared in the ifland of Jamaica; and in the autumn of 1790 the inhabitants of New-York were pretty feverely affected with it. It feemed to pafs over the country without obferving any particular direction,f allowing few to efcape its attacks; and returned in the fpring of 1791 with unabated violence. Its progrefs was rapid, and though an immenfe number of perfons were affected, the termination was very rarely fatal. In the autumn of 1793 the influenza was again obferved in this place, with fymptoms fimilar to thofe which marked its former occurrence.% The fame perfon was liable to be affedted every time of its ap- pearance, and fome experienced two or three attacks in the courfe of the fame epidemic. Children and aged perfons, in Europe as well as America, were peculiarly exempt.§ The diforder was moll fevere in thofe of bad habit'., and impaired conftitutions. The fymptoms varied fo much, * Duncan's Inaug. Difiert. De Catarrho Epidemico. f This was alfo obferved in the influenza of 1782. It obferved no regular progreffion from any one point of the compafs to another. Med. Tranf. vol. iii. p. 61. I By a gentleman of information from Demerara, I am informed, that in 1790 and 1793, the influenza made its ap- pearance in that place alfo—that the diforder was fevere, but the event very rarely unfavourable. § Rufh's Medical Obfervations and Inquiries, vol. ii. p. 252. Out of 700 boysinChrift's Hofpital, only 14 had it, and they in the (lighten: manner. Med. Tranf. vol. iii.p. 55.