ABSTRACT
The epidemic fever did not prevail in all parts of the province of Leinster with equal severity, or to the same extent. The numbers affected with fever were comparatively few, and the disease was unusually mild in some parts of Westmeath, particularly around Mullingar, but there were parts even of the county, in which the disease must have produced great havoc. The epidemic seemed to have usurped the place of the diseases, which are most common at other times, with the exception of small-pox, observed in many parts of this as well as of the other provinces, and dysentery, probably arising from the causes which were productive of fever. As in most parts of Ireland, so in Leinster, the antiphlogistic regimen was generally employed in the early stages of the disease, and cordial and stimulant remedies were given in its advanced stages, when such were required.
