The Great Famine of 1845-9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history. This title contains Volume Four of five, of 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.

Leslie Clarkson, E Margaret Crawford

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