1st Edition

Famine and Disease in Ireland, vol 5

    528 Pages
    by Routledge

    528 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Great Famine of 1845-9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history. This title contains reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" and similar publications.

    Volume V [Jonathan Swift], A Short View of the State of Ireland (1727–8), John Rutty, A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin (1770), William Harty, An Historic Sketch of the Causes, Progress, Extent, and Mortality of the Contagious Fever Epidemic in Ireland during the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819 (1820) (excerpt)