| Description Of Item | Clipped folio from the British Medical Journal relating to the ‘Strange Fever’ of 1558 in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie. Dr W Johnson Smyth cites Dr Sydney Carter’s account of a ‘pandemic’ of fever or ague that struck clergymen in Europe between 1555 and 1558, and Charles Creighton’s book A History of Epidemics in Britain. |