63. Fever Epidemic in Glasgow, 1818

Robert Graham was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University and a physician in the city’s Royal Infirmary. In 1818, during the typhus epidemic in Scotland, Graham wrote an account of the condition of the patients he had examined, which, he thought, would help to understand the causes and treatment of this disease (typhoid bacillus was first identified in 1880). R. Graham, Practical Observations on continued Fever, especially that Form at Present Existing as an Epidemic, with some Remarks on t..