1718 pandemic

This year was rather sickly in England, and cattle also perished by an infectious distemper.

The number of victims was nearly 25,000. Waterbury sus|tained a loss of about 130 of her inhabitants principally by dysen|tery. The French astrono|mer La Lande attempted to quiet the popular fears, by ascribing the phenomenon to a superabundance of watery particles in the But this solution is not satisfact|ory.
Instances will be hereafter mentioned. A body of troops under Gen. Nicholson, destined to co|operate with a fleet from England, in the reduction of Canada, e•camped near Wood Creek in the province of New-York, and in July and August were attacked with a distemper which made dreadful havoc and obliged them to decamp. Among the diseases in America is men|tioned a fatal angina in Boston, and other towns, but I am not furnished with its history. The summer was remarkable for thunder and lightning. Even the scarlet fever, with the exception of a few places, was less malignant than it has been in the last period. In 1736 and 7 a fatal ulcerous sore throat and malignant perip|neumonies, prevailed in France. Whereupon the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania re|quested the opinion of the Agricultural Society, as to the man|ner by which that insect is propagated. See Rutty on weather. In 1742 a mortal fever prevailed at Holliston in Massachu|setts, in which died Mr. Stone, the minister and fourteen of his congregation. The facts stated prove the disease to have been generated on the spot, and to have been progressive from It abated in July, and nothing is said about infection, till November, when a few more cases occurred. In the spring of 1761 earthquakes were felt in many parts of Europe. Earthquakes happened in England, Jamaica, Peru, Leghorn, Rome, Sicily and Lapland. In 1748 a fast was appointed in Massachusetts on account of the drouth. Dr. The small-pox was very frequent in England. 2018 marks the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic, widely acknowledged as one of the deadliest infectious disease crises in human history.

The year 1755 was remarkable for violent earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions from Etna and the mountains in Iceland.

In the preceding account, we observe the utter insufficiency of laws and regulations to prevent the introduction of the plague into cities; and the uncertainty of physicians at first as to the nature of the disease. 25, No.

The fish in the ocean did not escape without injury. A part of the summer was excessively hot in America. In November 1708 began a most severe and universal catarrh in Europe, which was speedily followed by a series of pestilen|tial diseases. In this commentary, we offer a historical analysis of the common socioeconomic, political, and environmental factors underlying both pandemics, consider the roles of cholera and Spanish flu in shaping global health norms and modern public health practices, and examine how strategic applications of soft power and broadening the focus of health security to include sustainable development could help the world prepare for pandemics of the future. It is the pestilence of winter, and rarely, if ever appears, except when pestilential epidemics are current in summer. The dysentery was still prevalent in the north|ern parts of America. In autumn 1753 after a dry season, arose in Rouen, the chief city of Normandy, a thick fog, with the smell of sulphur, which increased to that degree, that in the evening, lights could not be distinguished at any considerable distance. In 1749 and 50 the dysentery, according to Zimmerman, made great havoc in the Canton of Berne. I find it in all parts of America, in that year, but cannot trace the progress of the epidemic. The summer of 1776 in America was hot and in the northern states rainy. Page  220 Res|piration was difficult, and a considerable defluxion on the lungs. Page  279The summer of 1785 was excessively dry in France and Eng|land and fevers very prevalent in France. In Egypt the same disease committed most terrible ravages in 1783-4 and 5. It is proper to remark how extensively pestilence prevailed af|ter the great catarrh and terribly severe winter of 1709.

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