10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAIL FEVER»
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jail fever in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Description of the
Jail Distemper as it Appeared Amongst ...
The prisoners then, in proportion to their number, enjoyed an usual share of
health, and which, previous to the introduction of the jail-fever, had been equal to
the state of health of any number of working men in the manufacturing towns of ...
James Carmichael Smyth, Archibald Menzies, 1803
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A Description of the
Jail Distemper as it Appeared Amongst ...
The prisoners then, in proportion to their number, enjoyed an usual share of
health, and which, previous to the introduction of the jail-fever,' had been equal to
the state of health of any number of working men in the manufacturing towns of ...
James Carmichael Smyth, 1803
3
A Sequel to an Essay on the Yellow
Fever, principally ...
Had the jail-fever prevailed at Malaga after the arrival of these vessels, they might
reasonably have been suspected of having imported the contagion of it: but the
Yellow fever being a very dg'fierent disease, and Marseilles being a place at ...
Edward Nathaniel BANCROFT, 1817
4
An essay on the disease called yellow
fever: with ...
... and ought to have proved, either that the prisoners by whom <j the contagion
was said to have been diffused in the court, were then actually labouring under
jail fever, and capable of generating its contagion, or, that this contagion existed
so ...
Edward Nathaniel Bancroft, John Beale Davidge, 1821
5
Abstract of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioner ...
Probat)ly Dr. Barraut here alludes to the disease known as Umballa or Jail fever
— that to which the Sanitary Commissioner refers in his memorandum. 16. In the
reports which have been received of that fever, mention is made of cases of ...
6
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Nathaniel Williams, died March 27th, disease jail fever. John Peterson, died April
1st, disease jail fever. Ryan O'Brian, died April 6th, disease jail fever. Alexander
Bowmen, died April 8th, disease jail fever. Thomas Mason, May 2d, disease jail ...
New York (State). Legislature. Senate, 1838
7
Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in ...
But whereas other prison writings call specific attention to jail fever as the
disease most obviously identified with confinement, in his prison novel Fielding
explores a disorder not only associated with jails and carceral spaces, but also
attributed ...
8
The life of John Heysham, M.D.: and his correspondence with ...
68 JAIL-FEVER AND OPIATES. ants supported by daily wages, from which little
was ever laid up, so that sickness always found these unprovided for any
extraordinary expense. In the first report of the Carlisle Dispensary, and written by
Dr.
Henry Lonsdale, Joshua Milne, 1870
9
Gloriana's Torch: A Novel
'Most likely it's jail fever, there are two kinds, very like each other. Have you ever
had jail fever?' 'I had fevers . . .' He said some words in his own tongue, which
Simon assumed were the names. Snake coughed and lay down again. 'Not jail ...
10
The Maryland Medical Recorder
Doctor Pringle says that "in 1745 at Litchfield in England" owing to the crowded
state of the hospital, inflammatory fever became jail fever, of which many died.
This fever is said to have presented, in disguise, symptoms of the remittent fever,
...
Horatio Gates Jameson, 1829
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JAIL FEVER»
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jail fever is used in the context of the following news items.
Looking for descendants of Captain William Francis
Isaac Pettit, Garrett Null and Jacob Overholtser were found guilty but didn't hang, though they died in gaol of the ague or jail fever. «Tillsonburg News, Oct 14»
Orange County Typhus Cases: Symptoms and Treatment
There are two types of infection: murine typhus and endemic typhus. Endemic typhus, also known as “jail fever,” is less common in the United ... «NBC Los Angeles, May 12»
REVIEW: The Day the World Discovered the Sun
... and hallucinate in the grip of “jail fever” in Mexico. Not all would return alive to the comfortable salons of royalty. It's a heck of a yarn—a sort of ... «Macleans.ca, May 12»
Ashley Judd discovers she is a descendant of English coloniser who …
Having survived the dangerous conditions of incarceration - many prisoners died of jail fever at the time - he eventually was released and went ... «Daily Mail, Jul 11»
Electrifying Results from Shocking Pamphlet, 1888
... scufula, the gleete, ague-cake, hectic fever, jail fever, mormal, quinsy, variola, and that dreaded of all diseases, mogo-onthegogogo. «Booktryst, Jan 11»
Ghostly goings-on in haunted county
Furious, he cursed the court and within days, two judges, the coroner and many jurors were dead from jail fever, typhus, which killed 300 ... «Bicester News, Oct 09»
Clive Anderson: Garrow's Law gives credit to a neglected legal hero
The court was attached to Newgate Prison from which the defendants emerged, reeking and infected with jail fever. Once it was enclosed, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 09»
Colchester's 'witches' are remembered at the castle
A number of women died of jail fever while waiting in the unsanitary castle dungeons to be tried at Chelmsford in August 1645, or of fear at the ... «The Gazette, Aug 09»
