A History of Epidemic Pestilences / From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and Prophylaxis

GENERAL INDEX.

Act, a Paving, passed, p. 131
Adriatic, carriages driven on the, 30
Africa, earthquakes in, 21
——–, a fall of locusts in, Lord Carnarvon on, 14
Agabus, prophecy of, 17
Ague, 105
Agues and fevers in England, 31
Air, charging the, with mephitic vapours, 12
—– essential to vitality, 218
—– impregnated with mist and fœtidness, 27
Alexandria and Libya nearly destroyed, 23
Alexandrinus, 231
Alexipharmics, 107
Alfred, the rebuilding of London by, 30
Alkhatrib, 46, 48
Alonso V., army of, 66
Alonso de Burgos, 65
Alpinus, 92
Alsinet, Dr., 135
Alvarez, Dr., 139
America, introduction of variola into, 71
Ammonius, 77
Amos, on elemental disturbance, 194
Anacharsis, 7
Ancient writings, 188
Ancients, the, on epidemics, 186
Andalusian fever, the, 87, 100, 137
Andres Laguna, 48
Angina, 30;
a mortal, 112;
pestilential, 116
Anginas and dysenteries in England, 60
Animal kingdom, the, 221
Animals, carnivorous, attacked with pestilence, 12
———– disease among, 114, 146;
dysentery among, 125;
pestilence among, 98
Antioch, earthquake at, 19, 23, 24, 25
Apathy on the subject of epidemics, 185
Apoplectic fever, 167
Aqueous vapour, 224
Aquila destroyed by earthquake, 117
Arden, 73
Army of Gallienus, 22;
of king Alonso V., 66
Art of farriery, 66
Artaxerxes and Hippocrates, 7
Asia, earthquakes in, 21;
long continuance of pestilence in, 24
Asia Minor, earthquake in, 16
Astruc, 72, 74
Athens, morbid phenomena of a plague at, 7;
causes of a pestilence at, 8
Atmosphere, the, 223;
constitution of the, 9, 16, 21;
uses of the, 223;
sneezing induced by condition of the, 27;
impure, 204;
moist, 59
Atmospheric changes, 60;
influence, 190;
poison, 79
Aurelius Victor, 19, 21
Aurora borealis, 91, 120, 121, 168
Austrigilda, queen of Orleans, 26
Avernus, poisonous vapours of the lake, 4
Averrhoes, 37

Babylon depopulated, 17
Bagnios, 232
Baltic, disease among porpoises in the, 82
——– frozen over, the, 64, 67
Baraillon, 135
Barcelona, earthquake at, 62
Baronius, 29, 30
Barron, Dr., experiments of, 227
Bartianus, 29, 30
Bateman, Dr., 225
Bath, the use of the, 231;
the ancient Romans, and the, ib.
Bathing, 5, 231
Baths, vapour, of the Sætabi, 5
——– and wash-houses, 236
Bell of Velilla, the miraculous, 79
Bilious plague, 116, 123, 141
——— remittent fever, 71
Birds and dogs, epizootic among, 10
Black death, the, 50, 183
——– pestilence, the, 50
——– tongue, the, 173
——– worm, 141
Blane, Dr., 209
Blight, 135, 172, 174, 192
Blights, 74
Blood-coloured rain, 32, 82
Board of Health formed, 68
Bodies, unburied, 23
Boghurst, Mr., 109
Boja, the plague of, 71
Bow Church unroofed by storm, 34
Brain fever, 78
Break-bone fever, 137
Breeding women and cattle, pestilence fatal to, 10
‘Brenning,’ 73
Bridges broken down by ice, 34
Bright’s disease, 235
Brothel at Rome, Pope Sextus erects a, 67
Bruno Fernandes, 116
Buboes formed in the groin, 27
Bubonic pestilence, 79
‘Budho connail,’ 29
Burial, intramural, 137, 237
——– in churches, 241;
among the Gentiles, 246
Burial-grounds, exhalations from overcharged, 243
‘Burning,’ 73
———– of London by the Danes, 30
———– fevers and agues in England, 31

Cadiz, pestilence in, 10
Cæsarea, earthquake in, 19
Caius (John), 86
Caius, Dr., 69
Calabria, earthquake in, 138
Campaigns in warm climates, 9
Campania, famine in, 3
Cannibals infested with venereal disease, 73
Canton, inundations at, 46
Capmany, 59
Carnarvon, Lord, on a fall of locusts in Africa, 14
Carnivorous animals attacked with pestilence, 12
Carriages driven on the Adriatic, 30
Carswell, Sir Robert, 227
Carthaginians, destroyed by pestilence, 8
Casal, Dr., 121, 123
——– on the Asturias, 15
Casiri, 47
Catania, earthquake at, 112
Catarrh, 118, 130;
a fatal, in England, 115;
epidemic, 92, 105, 107, 114;
violent, 76
Catarrhs, 43;
preceding pestilences, 92
Caterpillars, 74, 85, 142
Cattle, disease among, 29;
distemper among, 128;
epizootic among, 108, 115, 119, 130, 131, 138, 180;
flux among, 31;
malignant epizootic among, 13;
murrain among, 31;
pestilence fatal to breeding women and, 10
Catullus, 5
Cause, God the First Great, 193
Causes of a pestilence at Athens, 83
——– of maladies, 189;
instances explanatory of the, 193;
Old and New Testaments on the, ibid.
——– of pestilence, De Foe on the, 206
——– and nature of epidemic pestilences, 184–207
Cedrenus, 21, 22, 29
Celestial influence, disease attributed to, 75
Cemeteries of the Turks, 239
Changes, atmospheric, 60
Channel, 126
Chapel, an imprecatory, consecrated, 68
Charging the air with mephitic vapours, 12
Charterhouse churchyard, the, 51
Chemical effects of light, 219
Childebert, 26
Children at Erfurt, the dancing disease among the, 39
Chili, earthquake at, 108, 124
China, 46;
earthquakes in, 18, 87, 108, 115;
floods in, 46
Chinese mode of sepulture, 239
Cholera, 21, 112, 137, 151, 152, 154, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 165, 166, 168, 174, 176, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183;
Reports on, 169
——— of 1817, 93;
at Kurrachee, Dr. Gavin Milroy on the, 177
Chorea, epidemic, 56
Churches, burial in, 241
———–, desecration of, 241
Churchyard, the Charterhouse, 51
————– of Minchinhampton, 247
Cibyra, earthquake in, 23
Cicero, 238
Civil wars, 116
Clark, Sir James, 227
Clarke, Dr. Adam, 244
Cleanliness and moderation among the Spaniards, 5
Cleanliness, personal, 233
Climates, warm, campaigns in, 9
Clopea cultrata, the, 163
Coals first used in England, 43;
use of, forbidden, 55
Cold and wet summer, 32
—— intense, 29, 32, 33
—— weather, 30
—— winters, 113
Combe, Dr., 234
Comets, 16, 17, 32, 34, 42, 44, 55, 61, 67, 75, 82, 83, 87, 93, 94, 95, 99, 104, 106, 108, 112, 115, 116, 118, 121, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132, 134
Commotions of the elements, 1, 10, 11, 17, 19, 45, 153
————— of Nature, 189
Comorra, earthquake at, 131
Condition of London, 205;
of the navy, 217
Conflicting opinions on contagion, 209
Confluent small-pox, 22
Constantine, 241
Constantinople, 212;
earthquake at, 24, 25;
earthquake and famine in, 23;
inoculation at, 120
Constitution of the atmosphere, 9, 16, 21
Consumption, 235
Contagion, on, 208–215;
conflicting opinions on, 209;
doctrine of, of modern origin, 208;
Scripture against, 213
Contagionists and their opponents, 208
Continent, prisons on the, 225
Continuance of pestilence for 260 years, 29
‘Convulsionnaires,’ the, 56
Convulsive disease, extraordinary, 32
‘Coqueluche,’ the, 62, 76
Corn, mildew of, 113
Cortes, the, convoked, 73
Cotunnius, 72
Coughs, epidemic, and fevers, 65
Cromwell, death of, 107
Cure for the plague, 84
Cuthbert, 242
Cyprian, 21
Cyril, St., 246

Dance of St. Vitus, 32
Dancing disease, the, among children at Erfurt, 39
——————– of St. Guy, the, 56
——— mania at Utrecht, the, 42
——— plague at Strasburg, 63
Dandy fever, the, 80, 156
Danes, the burning of London by the, 30
D’Angoulême, Count, 26
Danube frozen over, 25
Darkness, universal, 2
Darlington, earthquake near, 36
Davy, Professor, 223
De Foe on the causes of pestilence, 206
Dead bodies of locusts producing pestilence, 30
—————, unburied, 8
Deadly fevers in London, 79
Dearth, 38, 65, 85, 88;
a general, 28
Death of Oliver Cromwell, 107
——, the black, 50
Deguignes, 51
Deluge in Italy, 29
Denmark, earthquake in, 77
Depopulation of Latium, 3;
of Velitræ, 3
Description of an eruption of Vesuvius, 165
Desecration of churches, 241
Destruction of the army of Xerxes, 4
Deuteronomy quoted, 195
Devotion, influence of, 63
Diaconus, P., 29
Dimmerbroeck, 103
Diocletian, 22
Diodorus Siculus, 5, 8
Dion Cassius, 16, 18, 20
Dionysius Halicarnassus, 3, 6
Disease, a fatal, 147
——— among animals, 114, 146;
among cattle, 29;
among horses, 42;
among Mormonites, 175;
among porpoises in the Baltic, 82
——— attributed to celestial influence, 75;
Bright’s, 235;
exciting causes of, 191;
extraordinary convulsive, 32;
of Naples, 73;
in rye, 106;
predisposing causes of, 191;
the dancing, 39;
of St. Guy, 56;
the English, 82
———, Prophylaxis, or mode of preventing, 216–250
Disorders of the bowels, 55
Distresses of war, 23
Ditch, the Fleet, 44
Doctrine of contagion, of modern origin, 208
Dogs and birds, epizootic among, 10
Domitian, inoculation in the reign of, 18
Don Vincente Mut, 79
Dort, the sea broke out at, 66
Drinking urine, 5
Drains, 229
Drought, 30, 31, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 46, 60, 68, 69, 81, 95, 108, 116, 126, 131, 135, 150, 195, 203;
in Judea, 23;
long, in England, 31
Dry summers, 35;
weather, 109
Duarte Nunhez, 48
Dublin Lying-in Hospital, statistics of, 226
Duchatelet, 228
Dupuytren, 222
Dwellings of London, the, 206
Dysentery, 21, 24, 104;
a mortal, 83;
in England, 35, 43;
malignant, 2, 61, 77;
malignant, among the Romans, 12;
among animals, 125;
in France, 250;
fever with, 44
Dysenteries and anginas in England, 60
Dyspepsia, 235

Earth, revolutions in the organism of the, 45
Earthquakes, 22, 23, 25, 30, 34, 35, 40, 41, 47, 51, 52, 82, 112, 114;
at Antioch, 19, 23, 24, 25;
at Barcelona, 62;
at Catania, 112;
at Chili, 108;
at Comorra, 131, 133;
at Constantinople, 23, 24, 25;
at Lima, 94;
at Lincoln, 36;
at Lisbon, 47;
at Naples, 103, 110, 143;
at Odessa, 166;
at Peru, 93;
at Rome, 117;
at Saguntum, 10;
at Seville, 60;
at Vienna, 143;
in Asia Minor, 16;
in Calabria, 138;
in Cæsarea and Necropolis, 19;
in Chili, 124;
in China, 18, 87, 108, 115, 121, 124;
in cities of Palestine, 23;
in Cibyra, 23;
in Denmark, 77;
in England, 33, 44, 64, 65, 144, 166;
in France, Germany, and Italy, 29;
in Greece and Italy, 51;
in Ireland, 114;
in Jamaica, 113, 114;
in London, 127;
in Mexico, 136;
in Nicomedia, 19;
in Peru, 129;
in Rome, 9;
in Shropshire, 18;
in Sicily, 142;
in Spain, 10, 75;
in Suabia, 78;
in Switzerland, 136;
in Syria, 29, 129;
Messina destroyed by, 114;
near Darlington, 36;
near Kingsai, 46;
St. Paul’s at Rome destroyed by, 29;
in Egypt and Syria, 47;
in Europe, 23;
in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 21;
in Xativa, 78
Echard, 23
‘Eclair,’ remittent fever on board the, 174
Eclipse of the sun, 37
Ecstasy, an epidemic religious, 172
Edinburgh police, sickness among, 227
Edwards, Dr., experiments of, 221
Effects of war, 66
Egypt, a hot-bed of pestilence, 195
——–, earthquakes in, 47;
rain of crimson insects in, 3;
the plague of, 200
——– topography of, 196
Electrical tension, 192
Elemental disturbance, 189;
Amos on, 194
Elements, commotions of the, 1, 10, 11, 17, 19, 33, 45, 153
Elephantiasis, epidemic, 27
————— frequent in Spain and Africa, 15
Emerods, 2
Encephalitis, epidemic, 76
England, anginas and dysenteries in, 60;
coals first used in, 43;
dysentery in, 35, 43;
earthquakes in, 33, 44, 64, 65, 144, 166;
epidemic madness in, 53;
erysipelas in, 35;
famine in, 31, 32, 33;
fevers and agues in, 31;
great heat in, 31;
leprosy in, 38;
long drought in, 31;
severe frost in, 31
English artizans, insurrection of, 77
‘English disease,’ the, 82
Epidemic, an erysipelatous, 103
———– catarrh, 35, 105, 107, 114;
chorea, 56;
coughs and fevers, 65;
dancing disease of St. Guy, 56;
elephantiasis, 27;
encephalitis, 76;
jaundice, 121;
madness in England, 53;
œsophagitis, 78;
religious ecstacy, an, 172;
scurvy, 73;
sore throats, 30;
tertian fevers, 112, 139;
variola, 71
———– pestilences, nature and causes of, 184–207
Epidemics, physically and morally, 184;
the ancients on, 186;
Thucydides on, 215
Epidemiology, Spanish, the first epoch of, 2
Epizootic, an, 43;
among dogs and birds, 10;
among horses, 66, 78;
among cattle, 108, 115, 119, 130, 131, 138, 180;
malignant, among cattle, 13
Erasmus, 206
Ergot, 105
Ergotism, 116, 125;
gangrenous, 100, 111, 119
Eruption of Etna, 46, 112;
great, 17
——— of Vesuvius, 20, 21, 24, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 76, 103, 108, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 126, 127, 129, 134, 140, 143;
description of an, 165
Eruptions of volcanoes, 32
Erysipelas, 173;
in England, 35;
in France, 33
Erysipelatous epidemic, an, 103
————— epidemic fever, 34
Escobar, 112, 116
Essentials for vitality, 218
Esteve, 85
Etna, eruptions of, 46, 112;
great eruption of, 17
Europe, earthquakes in, 21, 23;
introduction of the venereal disease into, 72
Eusebius, 22, 204, 239
Evagrius, 24
Excessive heat, 66, 68;
moisture, 65, 66;
rains, 32, 40, 103
Exciting causes of disease, 191
Exhalations from overcharged burial-grounds, 243
Experiments of Dr. Barron, 227;
of Dr. Edwards, 221
Extraordinary convulsive disease, 22
————— showers, 59

Failure in harvest, 47, 69
Famine, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 51, 60, 61, 65, 69, 80, 82, 83, 88, 94, 100, 112, 121, 126, 128, 145, 149, 181
——— in Constantinople, 23;
in England, 31, 32;
in Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 31;
in Italy, 23, 24, 30, 31;
in Italy, Russia, Flanders, and England, 33;
in London, 31;
in Picenum, 25;
in Spain, 23
———, pestilence originating from, 28
———, price of wheat during, 44
Famines, 47
Farriery, the art of, 66
Fast, a, decreed, 28
Fatal disease, a, 147
Feast of St. Sebastian deferred, 67
Fellows, Sir James, 153
Fernando Bustos, 96
Fernando Calvo, 43
Fever, a bilious remittent, 71
——, a hot nervous, 150
——, Andalusian, 87, 100, 137
——, apoplectic, 167
——, a putrid, 71
——, brain, 78
——, break-bone, 137
——, erysipelatous epidemic, 34
——, inflammatory, 69
——, Kendall’s, 115
——, malignant, in London, 31
——, miliary, 120, 122
——, petechial, 128, 171
——, puerperal, 108, 138, 147
——, putrid, with phrenitis, 69
——, remittent, 172, 176;
remittent on board the ‘Eclair,’ 174
——, scarlet, 142
——, spotted, 75, 88
——, the dandy, 80, 156
——, with dysentery, 44
——, yellow, 29, 146, 149, 156, 170, 171, 172, 173
Fevers, 33, 34
——– and agues in England, 31
——– and disorders of the bowels, 55
——–, deadly, in London, 79
——–, epidemic coughs and, 65
——–, low, of London, 225
——–, malignant, 98, 103
——–, spotted, 80
——–, tertian, 132
Fièvre St. Antoine, 105
Filarcus, 5
Filthy condition of London, 43
Fire, a great, in Southwark, 112;
London destroyed by, 31
—– of London, the great, 205
—–, St. Anthony’s, 39
Fires, dreadful, 138
First epoch of Spanish epidemiology, 2, 198
Fish, a shower of, 163
—– unfit for food, 81
Flanders, famine in, 33;
overwhelmed, ibid.
Fleet ditch, 44
Flies and mosquitoes, 114
——, plague, 158
——, swarms of, 42
Floods in China, 46;
in France, 47
Florian de Ocampo, 6
Flux among cattle, 31
Fluxes, 33, 34, 43
Fœtidness, air impregnated with, 27
Fogs, 146, 174;
summer, 80
Fonseca, 99
Fordum, 27
Fracastorius, 50
France, dysentery in, 25;
earthquake in, 29;
erysipelas in, 33;
floods in, 47
Franco, 79, 90, 107
French pox, 71
Frenchmen, immunity of, 78
Friesland under water, 90
Frost, severe, 65, 66, 103, 113, 129, 139, 140;
severe, in England, 31;
sharp, 89;
on the Danube, 25
Frosts, hard, 119
Functions and importance of the skin, 235
Functius, 3
Funeral of Patroclus, 238

Galen, 202
Gallienus, the army of, 22
Gamble, Dr., 115
Gangrene of the extremities, 19;
of the spleen, 162
Gangrenous ergotism, 100, 111, 119;
sore-throat, 99, 128
Gaol distemper, 127
Gaspar Torella, 74
Gastaldi, Cardinal, 83, 107
Gentiles, mode of burial among, 246
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, 36
Germany, earthquake in, 29;
famine in, 82
Gloucestershire, inundation in, 69
Gnats, 125
God, the First Great Cause, 193
Godwin, Earl, the lands of, inundated, 34
Goelenius, 98
Gorges, 97, 99
Grand Cairo, 212
Grasshoppers, 30, 97, 113, 145
Gratius Faliscus, 5
Graveyard, poisonous effects from disturbing a, 247
‘Great sickness,’ the, 116
Greece and Italy, earthquake in, 51
Greeks, interment by the, 238
Gregory of Tours, 240
Groin, tumours in the, 24
Guadalquivir, the, overflowed, 100, 104
Guaiacum, in venereal disease, 75
Guido de Gaullaco, 48
Gunthran, King, 26

Habakkuk quoted, 194
Habits of London inhabitants, 44
Hailstorms, 79
Hales, Dr., 225
Haller, 74, 78
Hamilton, Dr., 209
Hard frosts, 119
Harvest, bad, 149;
failure in, 47, 69
Harvest-time, snow in, 32
Haslar Hospital, 138
Heat, 121, 131, 150, 199;
excessive, 66, 68, 135;
great, 61, 80;
great, in England, 31
Heavy rains, 39, 41, 54, 66, 70, 85, 86, 99, 104
Hecker, 46;
his account of the St. Vitus’s dance in 1374, 56
Hell-kettles, wells of, 36
Herculaneum and Pompeii, 17
Herodian, 20
Herodotus, 4
High tide in the Thames, 39
High tides, 42
Hippocrates, 7, 143, 186, 201, 212;
Hippocrates and Artaxerxes, 7
Histories of ancient nations, 186
History of St. Vitus, 64
Homer, 164, 238;
on the causes of pestilence, 199
Horses, an epizootic among, 66, 78;
disease among, 42
Hospital, Haslar, 138;
of St. Anthony, established, 39;
statistics of Dublin Lying-in, 226
Hot and moist weather, 113
—– summer, 38, 41, 84, 86, 98, 104, 114, 137, 145, 146
Howard, 225
Humboldt, 222
Hurricane, 51, 169
Hutchison, 97, 99
Huxham, 161
Hygrometric influence, 192

Ice for thirty days, 30
Ignis sacer, 21, 28, 105
Ignes fatui, 69
Immunity of Frenchmen, 78;
of the Spaniards from a pestilence, 4
Imposture and profligacy, 63
Imprecatory chapel consecrated, an, 68
————– processions instituted, 55, 59
Inclement seasons, 40, 41, 42, 43, 65, 105, 108, 112, 131, 142, 145, 150, 168, 169, 170
Inclement seasons in England, Palestine, and Holland, 34
———— weather, 38, 81
Inducing famine, 12
Infected places deserted by vultures, 12
‘Infirmitas icteritia,’ 29
Inflammatory fever, with delirium, 69
Influence, atmospheric, 190
———— of devotion, 63
———— of trade and locality, 179
Influenza, 123, 124, 130, 147, 148, 156, 169, 170, 180, 181, 182
Inguinaria, 27
Inoculation at Constantinople, 120;
in the reign of Domitian, 18;
introduced into England, 122
Insects, 119, 124, 143;
generation of, 1, 14, 19;
rain of crimson, 3
Instances explanatory of the causes of maladies, 193;
of fatal effects from burial-grounds, 243, 245
Institution of the Salii, 3
Insurrection of English artizans, 77
Intemperate seasons, 31
Intense cold, 29, 32, 33;
frost, 139
Interment by the Greeks, 238
Intermittent, a pernicious, 107
Intramural burial, 137, 237
Introduction of leprosy into Italy, 15;
of variola into America, 71;
of the venereal disease into Europe, 72
Inundation in Gloucestershire, 69;
in Syria, 34;
of the Nile, 23;
of the Tiber, 30
Inundations, 10, 16, 18, 19, 20, 35, 37, 38, 42, 47, 59, 70, 80, 83, 99, 100, 103, 104, 112, 113, 120, 134, 140, 160;
at Canton, 46;
round the Mediterranean, 23
Ireland, earthquake in, 114
Isodorus, 23
Italy and Greece, earthquake in, 51
—– deluged, 29;
earthquake in, 29;
famine in, 23, 24, 30, 31, 33;
introduction of leprosy into, 15;
locusts in, 33

Jamaica, earthquake in, 113, 114
Jaundice, epidemic, 121
Jenner, Dr., 227
Jeremiah quoted, 195
Jerusalem, siege of, 3
Joinville, 40
Jornandes, 21
Juan de Banos, 74
Juan de Carmona, Dr., 93
Jubilee, a papal, 55
Judea, storms and drought in, 23
Justin, 4, 8, 13

Kemp, Prof., 143
Kendall’s fever, 115
Khatemar, 48
Kings of Ulster and Munster cut off by pestilence, 29
Kingsai, earthquake near, 46
Kurrachee, Dr. Gavin Milroy on the cholera at, 177;
the pestilence at, 212

La grippe, 161
La trousse galante, 158
Lacedemonians, great mortality among the, 31
‘Ladendo,’ the, 61
Lake Alba, 9
Lancisius, 29, 30, 119
Largostus, 124
Latimer, 243
Latium depopulated, 3
Laurenciscus Rasius, 43
Lazar-houses established at Valencia, 33
Lazarettos, 211
Lectisternium, the, 9
Leprosy, 65, 94, 123;
in England, 38;
in Pompey’s army, 15;
in Spain, 15, 33;
introduction of, into Italy, 15;
pestilence of, 68
‘Leprous House,’ the, 249
Leviticus, chap, xiv., 250
Libya and Alexandria nearly destroyed, 23
Light, chemical effects of, 219
——– essential to vitality, 218
Ligurian pestilence, the, 26
Lima, earthquake at, 94
Lincoln, earthquake at, 36
Lind, 129
Linen, use of, 5
Linneus, 222
Lisbon, earthquake at, 47
Livy, 3, 6, 11, 13
Locality, influence of trade and, 179
Locusts, 11, 13, 14, 30, 32, 84, 98, 104, 106, 127, 142;
dead bodies of, producing pestilence, 30;
immense swarms of, 23;
in Italy, 33;
swarms of, 46, 68, 69, 76, 81
Loes, 161
‘Loimic’ pestilence, a, 18
Loimikié, 6
Loimoi, 21
Loimos in Syria, 21
London Bridge, wrecks at, 117
London, deadly fevers in, 79;
destroyed by fire, 31;
earthquake in, 127;
famine in, 31;
filthy condition of, 43;
habits of the inhabitants of, 44;
low fevers of, 225;
malignant fever in, 31;
plague in, 104;
starvation in, 38;
the burning of, by the Danes, 30;
the condition of, 205;
the dwellings of, 206;
the great fire of, 205;
the plague of, 207;
the rebuilding by Alfred, 30;
water conveyed to by leaden pipes, 43;
water first brought by the New River to, 98
Long continuance of pestilence in Asia, 24
—— rain, 50
Lotion, urine as a topical, 5
Low fever of London, 225
—— water in the Thames, 34
Lucretius, 7, 199
Lues Pannonica, 90
Luis Alcanyis, 68

Macedonia, earthquake in, 23
Madness, epidemic, in England, 53
Madrid, sanitary state of, 129
Magdenburg, 29, 30
Mal des pieds et des mains, 157
Maladie de Siam, the, 113
Maladies, causes of, 189
———–, Old and New Testaments on the, 193;
instances explanatory of the causes of, 193
Malignant dysentery, 2, 61, 77;
among the Romans, 12;
epizootic, among cattle, 13;
fevers, 98, 103;
measles, 110;
pneumonia, 76
Mania, epidemic, 123
Man-cyalm, 27, 28
Manson, Dr. 140
Marcellinus, 23
Marcellus, death of, 238
Marcus Curtius, 9
Mariana, 8, 10
Marselio Ficino, 78
Martin Arrendondo, 43
Martinez de Leyva, 48, 66
Mas, Dr. 100
Masdevall, Dr., 138
Mass, celebrated in Scio, 55
M’Culloch, 42
Meade, Dr. 209
Measles, 35, 98, 122, 138, 171;
malignant, 110
Measles, preceding pestilences, 92
———, small-pox and, 24
Measures, precautionary, 60
Mediterranean frozen over, 30, 39, 61;
inundations round the, 23
Mephitic vapours, charging the air with, 12
Merriman, Dr., 169
Messina destroyed by earthquake, 114
Metamorphosis of tadpoles, 221
Meteors, 32, 40, 81, 99
Mexico, earthquake in, 136
Michaelis, 249
Middleton, Sir Hugh, 98
Mildew of corn, 113
Miliary fever, 120, 122
——— pestilence, 111
Milroy, Dr. Gavin, on the cholera at Kurrachee, 177
Minchinhampton, churchyard of, 247
Miraculous bell of Velilla, 79
Mists, stinking, 86
‘Mode of avoiding plague,’ 47
Moderation and cleanliness among the Spaniards, 5
Modern nomenclature, 188
Moist atmosphere, 59
Moisture, 80;
excessive, 65, 66
‘Morbeira,’ a, or Board of Health, 68
Morbid phenomena of a plague at Athens, 7
Morbus Gallicus, 71
——— Hungaricus, 90
Morena, Dr., 122
Mormonites, disease among, 175
Mortal angina, 112
Mortality among sheep, 38;
great, among the Lacedemonians, 31
Morton, 107
Mosaic ordinances, the, 248
Mosquitoes, 143;
and flies, 114
Mould-spots, or signacula, 74
————— and red water, 85
Mountain of Tsincheou, falling of, 46
Mox, Dr., 100
Murator, 3, 30
Murrain, 3, 35, 42, 51, 74, 120, 126, 128, 135, 142, 144, 155, 164, 180;
among cattle, 31;
among sheep, 42

Naples, earthquakes at, 103, 110, 143;
syphilis at, 73;
the disease of, ibid.
Narses, pestilence in the time of, 26
Natural causes for pestilences, 214
Nature and causes of epidemic pestilences, 184–207
Navy, condition of the, 217
Necropolis, earthquake in, 19
New River, water first brought by the, to London, 98
Newgate, 225
Nicephorus, 22, 23, 27
Nicomedia, earthquake in, 19
Nile, the, 212;
inundation of the, 23
Nomenclature, modern, 188
Nuestro Alonso, 16

Ocampo, 8
Odessa, earthquake at, 166
Œsophagitis, epidemic, 78
Old and New Testaments on the causes of maladies, 193
Ordinances, the Mosaic, 248
Organism of the earth, revolutions in the, 45
Origin of the venereal disease, 73
Orosius, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17
Otho’s army destroyed by pestilence, 31
Overflow of the Severn, 69
Ovid, 200

Palestine, earthquake in cities of, 23
Palmer-worms, 42
Papal jubilee, a, 55
Papiliones, 34
Parè, 85
Pasqual, 87
Patroclus, funeral of, 238
Paulus Diaconus, 26
Paving Act, a, passed, 131
Pedro Bayro, 76
Pedro Martyr de Anglesia, 71
Peripneumoniæ, 52
Pernicious intermittent, a, 107
Persians, interment by the, 239
Personal cleanliness, 233
Peru, earthquakes at, 93, 129
Pestiferous blight, 192;
wind, 51
Pestilence in Egypt, A.M. 2509, 1;
at Kadesh, 2;
at Baal-peor, 2;
at Ægina, 2;
at Ashdod, 2;
in the time of David, 2;
in Rome, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 38, 72;
in Campania, 3;
in Italy, 3, 11, 20, 27, 30, 33, 37, 67, 69;
at Jerusalem, 4, 16;
in the army of Xerxes, 4;
immunity of the Spaniards at Syracuse, 4;
in Spain, 6, 8, 10, 20, 23, (singular) 25, 27, 37, 43, 48, 59, 66, 75, 76, 77, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 98;
at Athens, 7;
in Persia, 7;
in Egypt, 8, 20;
in Carthage, 8, 10, 13;
in Andalusia, 9, 55, 71;
in Saguntum, 9, 10;
in Capua, 11;
among the Roman and Rhodian fleets, 11;
in Palestine, 13;
in Numantia, 13;
in Africa, 13;
in Numidia, 13;
among the Roman armies, 15;
in Palestine, 16;
in Asia Minor, 16;
at Babylon, 17;
in Greece and Italy, 17;
from Italy to India, 17;
in the North of England, 18;
in Scotland, 18, 19, 20, 24, 29, 30, 31, 43;
in Wales, 18, 22, 24, 29;
in England, 19, 20, 23, 31, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 50, 52, 55, 59, 65, 69, 75, 81, 83, 84, 86;
in Arabia, 19;
in Asia, 19, 20;
in Ethiopia, 20;
in France, 20, 25, 29, 56, 61, 62, 77, 78, 80, 85, 98;
among the Scythians, 21;
in Alexandria, 21;
in England and Wales, 21;
in Syria, 21;
in Britain, 22;
in Amida, 23;
in Italy and Syria, 23;
in Judea, 23;
in Asia, Africa, and Europe, 23;
in Constantinople, 23;
in Cappadocia, Galatia, and Phrygia, 23;
in Asia and Africa, 24;
in Palestine, 24;
in Europe and Asia, 24;
in Germany and Italy, 25;
in the time of Narses, 26;
in Britain, Turenne, and the provinces of Arragon and Vivares, 27;
at Mecca, 27;
in Syria and Arabia, 27;
at Constantinople, 27;
in the south coasts of Britain and provinces of the Northumbrians, 27;
in Great Britain and Ireland, 27, 28;
in Syria and Mesopotamia, 28;
in Syria and Libya, 28;
in Constantinople, 29;
at Norwich, 29;
in Syria, 29;
in Calabria, Naples, and Constantinople, 29;
at Chichester, 29;
in Germany, 29;
in Gaul, 30;
in France and Germany, 30;
at Oxford, 30;
in London, 31, 41, 42, 49, 61, 77;
in Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 31;
in London, 31;
in the north of Europe, 31;
in Otho’s army, 31;
in England and Europe, 32;
England and Gaul, 32;
in England, Gaul, and Germany, 33;
among the Saracen invaders of Rome, 33;
in Egypt and Arabia, 33;
in York and Durham, 32;
at Constantinople, 33;
in Italy, Russia, Flanders, and England, 33;
in Europe, 34, 38;
in Judea, 34;
in Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Gaul, Sicily, Judea, Asia, and Africa, 35;
in England and Rome, 36;
in Castile, 36;
in the army of the Crusaders at Acre, 36;
in Catalonia, 37;
at Cordova, 37;
in Damietta, 37;
in Germany, Hungary, Gaul, and Egypt, 38;
in Denmark, Italy, and Gaul, 39;
in the army of St. Louis, the Crusader, 40;
among the Crusaders, 42;
in Britain, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Prussia, Zealand, Egypt, Germany, Bohemia, and Spain, 42;
at Gerona, 42;
at Barcelona, 46, 50, 55, 61;
at Tche, 46;
in China, Syria, Greece, Egypt, Asia, and Africa, 48;
in Italy and Sicily, 48;
in Granada, 48;
in Upper Asia, 48;
in Cathay, 48;
in Asia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, England, and Germany, 49;
in Florence, 49;
in Norwich, 49;
in Venice, 49;
in Lubeck, 49;
in Syria, 49;
on the shores of the Pontic, 49;
in Greece and Illyria, 49;
in Mallorca, 38, 49, 60, 68, 71;
in Valencia and Catalonia, 50;
in Sicily and Sardinia, 50;
in Greenland, 51;
in Cyprus, 51;
at Southampton, 52;
in France and Germany, 52;
in Ireland, Holland, and England, 52;
in Germany, Russia, Hungary, Spain, and Gaul, 52;
in Denmark and Iceland, 52;
among the Oxford students, 52;
in Montpelier, 52;
in England, Africa, Cyprus, Italy, Florence, Gaul, Ireland, and Scotland, 53;
at Cologne, 55;
in England and Ireland, 55;
in Italy and Gaul, 55;
in Germany, Egypt, Greece, and Lubeck, 55;
in Holland and the Rhenish provinces, 56;
in the Shetland islands, 56;
in Seville, 59, 61, 70, 85, 97;
in Gallicia, 60;
in Benavento, Matillas, Arzon, Villalobos, Rales, and Valderas, 60;
at Norfolk and York, 61;
in Valencia and Catalonia, 61;
at Florence, 61;
in Bourdeaux, Aquitaine, and Gascony, 61;
at Seville, 62;
at Barcelona, 62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 73, 75, 76, 79, 88, 94, 97;
in Dantzic, 65;
at Huesca, 65;
in Italy, Gaul, Germany, Asia, and Spain, 66;
at Saragossa, 67;
at Cadiz, 67;
at Parma, 67;
at Valencia, 68;
in Switzerland and Germany, 69;
in Westphalia, Hesse, and Friesland, 69;
in France, 69, 89;
in Ireland, 70;
in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Egypt, 70;
in Saragossa and Aragon, 71;
in Granada, 71;
in Saragossa, 73, 83;
in Germany, Portugal, and Ireland, 73;
among Portuguese crews, 74;
in Britain, 74;
in Brussels, 74;
in France and Germany, 74;
in China, 75;
in Ireland, 75;
in Lisbon, 75;
in Cadiz, 76;
in Constantinople, 76;
in Germany, 76;
in Europe, 76;
in Verona, 77;
in Oxford and Cambridge, 77;
at Calais, 78;
in Germany, 78;
in Holland, 78;
in Hispaniola, 78;
in Navarre, 78;
in Valencia, 78, 79;
at Dresden, 79;
in Milan, 79;
in Xativa and Seville, 79;
in Lower Germany, Holland, Zealand, Brabant, Flanders, Denmark, Norway, and France, 79;
at Wurtemburg, 79;
at Aragon, 79;
in London, 79;
in Ireland and Italy, 79;
in Amsterdam, 81;
at Hamburg, 81;
in Germany, 82;
at Lubeck, Stettin, and Zwickau, 82;
at Brussels, 82;
in Pomerania, 82;
in Germany and Denmark, 83;
in Aragon, 83;
in Italy and Spain, 83;
in Lisbon, 83;
in Narbonne, 83;
in Cork and Dresden, 83;
in Hungary, 84;
in Constantinople, 84;
at Metz, 84;
in Savoy, France, 84;
England, Holland, and Germany, 85;
in Prussia, 85;
in Murcia and Portugal, 85;
in Valencia, 85;
in London, 86, 88, 91, 95;
in Messina, 86;
in Paris, Hungary, and Transylvania, 86;
in England and France, 86;
among Spanish soldiery, 87;
in Vienna and Holland, 87;
in Spain and France, 87;
in Murcia, 88;
in Europe, 88;
along the Rhine, 89;
at Comorra, 90;
at Seville, 90;
in Friesland, 91;
in Dresden, 91;
in Spain and Italy, 91;
among prisoners at Oxford, 91;
in Europe, 92;
at Marseilles, 93;
in Flanders, Moravia, London, Germany, and Holland, Egypt, and Rome, 94;
in Madrid, 94;
in Valladolid, 94;
in Dresden, 95;
in Malta, 95;
in England, Constantinople, and Spain, 95;
in Muscovy, 95;
in Granada, 96;
in Gallicia, 96;
in Seville, 96;
at Jaen, 96;
in England, 96;
in Europe, 96;
in the fleet of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers, 97;
in Ragusa, 97;
in Granada, 97;
in Germany, 98, 99;
at Constantinople, 98;
in Crete, Alexandria, Calabria, Turkey, Italy, Dalmatia, Venice, Germany, France, Poland, Flanders, Persia, and Asia, 98;
in England, 98;
at Naples, Bergen, Norway, Denmark, Egypt, the Levant, North and South America, Hungary, France, and England, Seville, 99;
London, Amsterdam, Spain, Argel, England, Italy, Denmark, Egypt, Lyons, France, Narbonne, Cambridge, America, Marseilles, Catalonia, and Guadix, 100;
in Europe, 103;
in South America, 104;
in the United States of America, 104;
in Oxford, 104;
in Madrid, Denmark, England, and Andalusia, 104;
in Ireland, America, West Indies, Spain, England, France, Denmark, 105;
in Russia, Poland, Carmona, Andalusia, Tortosa, Gerona, Huesca, Barcelona, and Girona, 106;
in England, Denmark, Turkey, Russia, Presburg, Hungary, Italy, Egypt, Malta, Sardinia, Leyden, Riga, Amsterdam, Morocco, Naples, Rome, France, and North America, 107;
in England, Venice, Leipsic, and Copenhagen, 108;
in Salamanca, Lisbon, the United States, Norway, and England, 110;
in Aquitaine, Sologne, Galinois, Montagris, 111;
in Spain, Hungary, England, Malta, and Hamburg, 111;
in Carthagena, the United States, and Europe, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Andalusia, Germany, Dresden, England, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Ireland, Sardinia, Malaga, Antequera, Granada, Moron, Ronda, Lucena, Andujar, Xeres, Santa Maria, and Cadiz, 112;
in Berberia, in Europe, and America, 113;
among animals, 114;
in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Jena, United States, Spain, Italy, and Jamaica, 114;
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Barbadoes, Berlin, among the American Indians, Spain, North America, China, England, France, Liorna, Geneva, Cerdena, Narbonne, and Nismes, 115;
among the Anglo-Americans, 115;
in Spain, England, Scotland, Friesland, the United States, and Freiburg, 116;
in Ceuta, Tunis, Malaga, Cerdena, 118;
in Rome, South America, Spain, Andalusia, Dantzic, Holland, Cologne, Lucerne, Zurich, Berne, Orleans, Sweden, 119;
in Copenhagen, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, Mümpelgart, Constantinople, England, United States, Breslau, Turin, 120;
in the Asturias, Aleppo, Marseilles, 121;
in Toulon, Aix, and Arles, Provence, in the Lower Seine, Jamaica, Spain, Granada, Placentia, London, America, Vienna, Hungary, Upper Saxony, Silesia, Lisbon, Frankfort, 122;
in Granada, Andalusia, Carthage, the United States, South America, 123;
at Chambery, Annecy, Savoy, Carmagnola, Vercelli, Ivrea, Biella, Vienna, Pignerol, Fossano, Nizza, Rivoli, Asti, Larti, Acqui, Basle, Silesia Thrasburg, Trino, Frésneuse, Vimeux, Orleans, Plouviers, Meaux, Villeneuve, Bohemia, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Cadiz, Andalusia, London, United States, Spain, 124;
in Coburg, Egypt, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Calabria, Switzerland, New Spain, Aleppo, Tangiers, Smyrna, United States, West Indies, North America, Seville, Grand Cairo, England, and Bohemia, 125;
in Spain, Ireland, Germany, Siberia, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Holland, and England, 126;
in Huesca, the Asturias, Constantinople, United States, London, Isen and Cordova, 127;
in England, North America, Normandy, Ireland, France, Constantinople, Syria, Smyrna and Cyprus, Aleppo, Jerusalem and Damascus, West India Islands, 128;
in Africa, United States, Senegal, 129;
in Carthagena, Cyprus, the Ottoman Empire, United States, West Indies, Madrid, 130;
in United States, Havannah, Siam, Bengal, Syria, Egypt, France, Denmark, Madrid, Genoa, Sweden, Naples, 131;
in Spain, Carthagena, Suabia, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, United States, West Indies, 132;
in Europe, United States, Germany, Spain, Carthagena, Jamaica, Holland, Bengal, 133;
in Sardinia, Holland, Flanders, Poland, Russia, Bohemia, Vienna, 134;
Moscow, Bassora, the Ganges, Scotland, United States, France, 135;
Constantinople, England, Spain, 136;
United States, Spain, South America, 137;
England, United States, Garigani, Languedoc, 138;
Catalonia, Tortosa, Aragon, Alcarria, Andalusia, 139;
Carthagena, La Mancha, Havannah, United States, 140;
America, Grenada, 141;
Africa, Egypt, England, the Havannah, Hungary, Servia, 142;
West India Islands, United States, 143;
United States, Barbary, Morocco, 144, 145, 146;
in England and Ireland, Germany, Gibraltar, Constantinople, 147;
in London, Gibraltar, Malta, 148, 149;
in Corfu, India, United States, Jessore, 150, 151, 152;
Mauritius, United States, West Indies, East Indies, 152, 153;
in the Indian Archipelago, Bassora, Bagdad, China, the Moluccas, Ispahan, Chinese Tartary, Ireland, France, Lapland, Africa, South America, 154, 155;
in Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, Grand Cairo, Germany, United States, England, West Indies, Gibraltar, 156, 157;
in Naples, France, England, Ireland, America, Russia, Persia, Poland, Moldavia, Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, Alexandria, the Delta of the Nile, 158, 159;
in France, 161;
in England, United States, Russia, Germany, France, Turkey, Gibraltar, 162, 163;
in India, Prussia, Warsaw, Egypt, Alexandria, Grand Cairo, 164, 165;
Leghorn, Odessa, Europe, North and South America, West India Islands, 166, 167;
in Rome, Syria, Moscow, Orenburg, England, Ireland, Asia, United States, London, 168, 169;
England, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, France, Cape of Good Hope, Mount St. Bernard, Algiers, St. Petersburg, Texas, 170, 171;
Germany, Scotland, Syria, United States, Africa, 172, 173;
in Persia, Senegal, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, England, Africa, among Mormonites, 174, 175;
in Scotland, Ireland, Afghanistan, Persia, Tartary, Bagdad, Kurrachee, 176, 177;
in Gallicia, Persia, Tauris, Teheran, Bakrou, Caucasian Provinces, Tiflis, the Caucasus, Russia, 178, 179;
Wallachia, Scotland, Portugal, Spain, France, Russia, Turkey, Marseilles, United States, Trebizond, Silesia, England, 180, 181
Pestilence among animals, 98
————, the black, 50
————, a bubonic, 79
————, dead bodies of locusts producing, 30
————, De Foe on the causes of, 206
————, Egypt a hot-bed of, 195;
fatal to breeding women and cattle, 10;
a filthy smelling vapour causing, 49;
the Kings of Ulster and Munster cut off by, 29;
at Kurrachee, 212;
of leprosy, 68;
a ‘loimic,’ 18;
long continuance of, 29;
long continuance of, in Asia, 24;
the Ligurian, 26
————, a miliary, 111
————, originating from famine, 28;
petechial, 147
————, rains and, 31
————, statistics of, 53
————, the true, 24
————, yellow, 99, 100, 104, 113, 151, 153, 155, 157
————, epidemic, nature and causes of, 184–207
————, natural causes for, 214
Pestilential angina, 116;
constitution, 187;
or scarlet sore-throat, 24
‘Pestis flava,’ 29
Petechial fever, 80, 128, 171
———– pestilence, 147;
treatment of, 94
Pharaoh IV., prodigies in the natural world in the reign of, 1
Phenomena, remarkable, 108
Philo on a ‘loimic’ pestilence, 18
Phrenitis, putrid fever with, 69
Picenum, famine in, 25
Pintor, 72
Plague, 24, 77, 103, 111, 112, 125, 136, 142, 145, 147, 149, 163, 164, 172;
at Athens, morbid phenomena of a, 7
———, bilious, 116, 141
——— of Boja, the, 71
———, cure for the, 84
———, dreadful, 121, 124
——— of Egypt, 200
——— flies, 158
———, the great, 183
Plague in London, 100, 104, 207
———, mode of avoiding, 47
——— of Siberia, the, 162
———, a terrific, 48
———, treatment of, 78, 94
Planets, origin of the venereal disease attributed to conjunction of the, 72
Pleurisies, 33, 35
Pliny, 17
Plutarch, 3, 7, 238
Poison, atmospheric, 79
Poisonous effects from disturbing a graveyard, 247
———— vapours of lake Avernus, 4
Pompeii and Herculaneum, 17
Pompey’s army, leprosy in, 15
Pope and the Fleet ditch, 44
Pope Sextus erects a brothel at Rome, 67
Porcell, Dr., 89
Porpoises in the Baltic, disease among, 82
Potato disease, 172, 174, 176, 182
Pox, the French, 71
Prayers, public, 66;
rogatory, 79
Precautionary measures, 60
Predisposing causes of disease, 191
Prevention, 217
Prisons on the Continent, 225;
Savoy and Newgate, ibid.
Processions, imprecatory, instituted, 55, 59;
solemn, 67, 68
Procopius, 25, 26
Prodigies in the natural world in the reign of Pharaoh IV., 1
Profligacy and imposture, 63
Prophecy of Agabus, 17
Prophylaxis, or mode of preventing disease, 216–250
Prostitutes taxed, 67
Puerperal fever, 108, 138, 147
Puiz, Dr., 113
Purchas, 97
Putrid fever, a, 71;
with phrenitis, 69

Quinsies, 88
Quinsey, 35, 98, 120
Quarantine, 211

Rain, blood-coloured, 82
—— of crimson insects, 3
——, long, 50;
remarkable fall of, 150;
a shower of, frozen, 111;
in torrents, 46
Rains and pestilence, 31
——, excessive, 30, 32, 40, 103;
heavy, 39, 41, 54, 66, 70, 85, 86, 99, 104, 170
Ramon Vila, 46, 76
Rebuilding of London by Alfred, 30
Red water and mould-spots, 85
Registrar-General’s Report on the Influenza of 1847, 181, 182, 183
Remarkable phenomena, 108
Remedy for pestilential fever, 122
Remittent fever, 172, 176;
on board the ‘Eclair,’ 174
Render, Rev. Dr., 245
Reports on Cholera, 169
Revolution in the organism of the earth, 45
Rhone, the, frozen over, 30
Rivére, 161
Ribeiro, Dr., 5
Riverius, 98
Rogatory prayers, 79
Romans, the ancient, and the bath, 231;
malignant dysentery among the, 12
Rome, earthquake at, 9, 117;
Pope Sextus erects a brothel at, 67;
the site of, 204
Rosell, Dr., 100
Rush, Dr., 141
Russell, Dr. Patrick, 209
Russia, famine in, 33
Rye, disease in, 106
Rymer, 52

Sacrifices, 6
Sætabi, vapour baths of the, 5
Saguntum, earthquake at, 10
Saine, Dr., 125
Salii, institution of the, 3
Salted provisions, the use of, 15
Sanchez, Dr., 5, 72
Sanitary state of Madrid, 129
Sastre, Dr., 113
Sauvages, 15, 126
Savoy Prison, 225
Scarlatina, 116
Scarlet fever, 35, 142;
sore-throat, 24
Schenckius, 74, 89
Scripture against contagion, 213
Scurvy, 21, 74;
epidemic, 73
Sea broke out at Dort, 66
—–, Winchelsea swallowed up by the, 41
Seasons, intemperate, 31;
inclement, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 65, 105, 108, 112, 131, 133, 142, 145, 150, 168, 169, 170
Senertus, 86, 161
Sepulture, Chinese mode of, 239
‘Serpentine Disease,’ the, 84
Servius, 238
Severe frost, 37, 65, 66, 103, 113, 129, 140;
storm, 118;
winter, 30, 31, 35, 38, 41, 55, 94, 98, 137, 145, 148
Severn, the, overflowed, 69
Seville, earthquake at, 60
Sheep, mortality among, 38;
murrain among, 42
Shipping, entry of, prohibited in Sicily, 75
Short, 29, 30, 97
Shower of fish, a, 163;
of rain, frozen, 111
Showers, extraordinary, 59
Shropshire, earthquake in, 18
Siberia, the plague of, 162
Sibylline books, the, 9
Sicily, earthquake in, 142;
entry of shipping prohibited in, 75
Sickness among the Edinburgh police, 227
‘———, the great,’ 116
———, the sweating, 70, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 114, 119
Siege of Jerusalem, 3;
of Troy, 199
Signacula, or mould-spots, 74
Silius Italicus, 5
Simon, Mr., 222
Singular pestilence in Spain, 25
Site of Rome, the, 204
Skin, the functions of the, 235
Small-pox, 35, 78, 98, 112, 116, 120;
confluent, 22;
pestilential, at Mecca, 27;
treatment of, 131;
virulent, 111
———— and measles, 24
Smith, Dr. Southwood, 234
Sneezing induced by conditions of the atmosphere, 27
Snow, heavy fall of, 169
—— in harvest-time, 32
Snow-storm, a, 100
Socrates on bathing, 231
Solemn processions, 67
Sore throat, gangrenous, 99, 128;
scarlet, 24;
epidemic, 30
‘Sorte-diod,’ the, 50
Southwark, a great fire in, 112
Spain, earthquake in, 10, 75;
famine in, 23;
leprosy in, 15, 33;
temperature of, 15
Spaniards, cleanliness and moderation among the, 5;
their immunity from a pestilence, 4
Spanish epidemiology, the first epoch of, 2, 198
Spiders, 98, 119
Spleen, gangrene of the, 162
Sporadic cholera, 174
Spotted fever, 75, 80, 88
St. Anthony, 64;
St. Anthony’s fire, 39
St. Fechin, 28
St. Gerald, 28
St. Gregory, 25;
St. Gregory’s ‘History of the Franks,’ ibid.
St. Guy, the dancing disease of, 56
St. Margaret, 64
St. Narcissus, 43
St. Paul’s at Rome destroyed by earthquake, 29
St. Sebastian, feast of, deferred, 67
St. Vitus, dance of, 32;
Hecker’s account of, 56
———’s torrent, 81
Stagnant pools and marshes, 150
Starvation in London, 38
Statistics of pestilence, 53;
of Dublin Lying-in Hospital, 226
Statius, 231
Stews, public, Bishop Winton on, 73
Stinking mists, 86
Stokes, Dr., 176
Storm, severe, 118;
violent, 61, 76
Storms, 2, 10, 11, 16, 65, 108, 120, 127, 133, 140;
in Judea, 23;
in Thuringia and Saxony, 81
Stow, 43, 44, 53
Strange phenomenon in the tides, 111
Strasburg, dancing plague at, 63
Suabia, earthquake in, 78
Subterraneous thunder, 47
‘Sudor Anglicus,’ the, 70
Suetonius, 17
Summer, cold and wet, 32;
dry, 35;
fogs, 80;
hot, 18, 38, 41, 84, 86, 98, 104, 114, 137, 145, 146;
wet, 75
Sun, eclipse of the, 37
Sutton, Dr., 173
Swarms of flies, 42;
of locusts, 46, 68, 69, 76, 81
Sweating sickness, the, 70, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 114, 119
Switzerland, earthquake in, 136
Sydenham, 109, 161, 206
Symptoms of a pestilence at Carthage, 8
Syphilis at Naples, 73
Syria, earthquake in, 29, 47;
inundation in, 34;
loimos in, 21

‘Tac,’ the, 61
Tacitus, 16, 17, 204
Tadpoles, metamorphosis of, 221
Tagus, the, overflowed, 83
‘Tarantisme,’ 56
Tasso, 203
Temperature of Spain, 15
Tempests, 98, 99;
violent, 30, 60
Tempestuous seasons, 32;
weather, 44
Terrific plague, a, 48
Tertian epidemic, 139;
fever, 132;
fevers, epidemic, 112
Thames, the, fordable, 95;
frozen over, 31, 33, 113;
high tide in the, 39, 124, 127;
low water in the, 34;
the water of the, 230
Thucydides, 7, 199;
on epidemics, 215
Thullier, Dr., 101
Thunder, subterranean, 47
Thunder-storms, 38, 41, 43, 46, 47, 54, 66, 105, 116, 118, 145;
in London, 34
Tiber, the, overflowed, 83;
inundation of the, 30
Tides, a strange phenomenon in the, 111;
high, 42, 124, 127
‘Tigretier,’ 56
Tongue, the black, 173
Topography of Egypt, 196
Torrent, St. Vitus’s, 81
Torrents of rain, 46
Trade and locality, influence of, 179
Treatment of petechial pestilence, 94;
of plague, 78;
of small-pox, 131;
of the venereal disease, 73
‘Trousse Galante,’ the, 80
Troy, the siege of, 199
‘True pestilence,’ the, 24
—— plague in France, 25
Tsincheou, falling of the mountain of, 46
Tully, 150
Tumours in the groin or axillæ, 24
Turks, cemeteries of the, 239
Tyengius, 78, 81
Typhoid epidemic at Mount St. Bernard, 171
Typhomania, 21
Typhus, 142, 146, 151, 155, 156, 173;
fever, 149

Ubilis, 15
Unburied dead bodies, 8, 23
Urine as a topical lotion, 5;
drinking, 5;
washing with, 5
Use of coals forbidden, 55;
of linen, 5;
of salted provisions, 15
Uses of the atmosphere, 223
Utrecht, the dancing mania at, 42

Valcarcel, 111
Valencia, lazar-houses established at, 33
Valles, 94
Vapour, a filthy smelling, causing pestilence, 49
Vapour baths of the Sætabi, 5
Vapours, gross, 89;
poisonous, of the lake Avernus, 4
Variola, 140;
introduction of, into America, 71;
epidemic, ibid.
Vegetable kingdom, the, 220
Velilla, the miraculous bell of, 79
Velitræ depopulated, 3
Venereal disease, the, 84;
a pestilential fever, 72;
cannibals infested with the, 73;
guaiacum in, 75;
introduction of, into Europe, 72;
origin of the, 73;
the origin of, attributed to conjunction of the planets, 72;
treatment of the, 73
Venetian territory, famine in the, 82
Ventilation, 225, 226
Vestal Virgins, the, 239
Vesuvius, 17;
eruption of, 20, 21, 24, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 76, 103, 108, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 126, 127, 129, 134, 140, 143;
description of an eruption of, 165
Vicissitudes of weather, 32
Vienna, earthquake at, 143
Villalba, 4, 5
Villalon, 119
Villanius, 48, 49
Vincente Mut, 60
——–— Ximeno, 72
Violent catarrh, 76
——— storm, 76
Virulent small-pox, 111
Vitality, light and air and water essential to, 218
Volcanic eruptions, 99
Volcanoes, eruptions of, 32
Vomito negro, the, 140
Vultures, infected places deserted by, 12

War, distresses of, 23;
effects of, 66;
civil, 116
Washhouses and baths, 236
Washing with urine, 5
Water, 230;
considered dietetically and medicinally, 230;
conveyed to London by leaden pipes, 43;
essential to vitality, 218;
first brought by the New River to London, 98;
of the Thames, 230
Weather, dry, 109;
hot and moist, 113;
inclement, 38, 81;
tempestuous, 44;
vicissitudes of, 32
Wells of hell-kettles, 36
Wet summer, 75
Wheat, price of, in famine, 44
Wierus, 89
Winchelscomb, storm at, 33
Winchelsea swallowed up by the sea, 41
Wind, a pestiferous, 51
Window-tax, the, 237
Winters, cold, 113;
mild, 141;
severe, 7, 18, 20, 30, 31, 35, 38, 41, 55, 94, 98, 137, 145, 148
Winton, Bishop, on public stews, 73
Wollaston, Dr., account of an epidemic of grangrenous ergotism by, 101
Worm, black, 141
Wrecks at London Bridge, 117
Wren, Sir Christopher, 243

Xativa, earthquake in, 78
Xerxes, destruction of the army of, 4

Yellow fever, 29, 146, 149, 156, 170, 171, 172, 173;
pestilence, 99, 100, 104, 113, 151, 153, 155, 157

Zosimus, 21
Zurita, 49, 67

A History of Epidemic Pestilences / From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and Prophylaxis

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