ABSTRACT
Non-extracted parts of the pamplet review therecent chronology of fever and famine, and the practical efforts, chiefly in Dublin, to prevent fever by providing food. Ireland, Corrigan declared, was in denial about the coming fever. Failure toprepare would worsen the epidemic by encouraging commerce-preventingquarantine. The sequence of famine followed by fever was enough: according to theproto-positivism of the Scottish physician-philosopher Thomas Brown, sequence was cause; people could not ultimately expect more. The famine that transformed Ireland over the next six years was the last greatfamine in Britain. Corrigan’s claims were not so much superseded as renderedirrelevant. Fever, increasingly typhoid, would be seen in terms of factorsclearly within the sanitarian-structural realm: chiefly drains.
