2416 Pages
by Routledge

2416 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 I: Note on Copy Texts, General Introduction, Chronology, William Robert Wills Wilde, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part V: Tables of Deaths (1856), Bibliography, Notes.

Volume II: Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately, Epidemical in Ireland (2 vols, 1821), vol. 2, Bibliography, Notes

Volume III: Chronology, Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately, Epidemical in Ireland (2 vols, 1821), vol. 1, Notes.

Volume IV: Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever lately, Epidemical in Ireland (2 vols, 1821), vol. 2, Bibliography, Notes.

Volume V: Chronology, [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); Bibliography, Notes, Index.

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Edited by Leslie A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford