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.
Reviews
'a magisterial production in size and scope' Economic History Review 'researchers on the history of medical statistics, sanitary reform and the politics of medicine in Ireland will all find this a useful addition to the library shelves.' Irish Economic and Social History Journal
Volume 1 Complete text: W R W Wilde, 'Table of cosmical phenomena,
epizootics, epiphitics, famines, and pestilences in Ireland ', Census of
Ireland for the Year 1851, part v (1856) Volume 2 Complete text:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (1847, 1848) Excerpted texts:
Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Vol. VII, No. 13, n.s. (1849);
Vol. VII, No. 14, n.s. (1849); Vol. VIII, No. 15, n.s. (1849); Vol. VIII, No.
16, n.s. (1849) Volume 3 and 4 Complete text: Francis Barker and
John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Fever
lately epidemical in Ireland together with Communications from Physicians in
the Provinces (1821) Volume 5 Complete texts: A B, A short View
of the State of Ireland (1727); John Rutty, A Chronological History of the
Weather and Seasons and of the prevailing Diseases in Dublin (1770)
Excerpted text: William Harty, Historical Sketch of the Causes, Extent, and
Mortality of contagious Fever, Endemics in 1741, and during 1817, 1818, and
1819 (1820)
