[651] The nearest approach to Heberden’s London influenza of 1767 is an
epidemic that Sims observed in Tyrone in the autumn of 1767; a season
remarkable for measles and acute rheumatism. At the same time that the
acute rheumatism prevailed, a fever showed itself, like it; the patients
for two or three days were languid, chilly, with pains in the bones,
headache, stupor, dry tongue, costiveness. It was marked by remissions,
was by no means mortal, and usually ended by a sweat from the 14th to the
17th day, followed by a copious deposit in the urine. James Sims, _Obs. on
Epidemic Disorders_, Lond. 1773, p. 84.
[652] Anthony Fothergill, _Mem. Med. Soc._ III. 30. This paper is not
included in John Fothergill’s series. There is also a separate Dublin
essay, _Advice to the People upon the Epidemic Catarrhal Fever of Oct.
Nov. Dec. 1775_. By a Physician.
[653] I have not found the weekly bills for this year in London; but the
following averages, taken from the four-weekly or five-weekly totals in
the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, will show how slight the rise was: