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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 / With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Chapter 27: FOOTNOTES:
By Nathaniel Hodges
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The author provides a first-hand narrative of a major urban plague outbreak, tracing its emergence, spread, and the social reactions that amplified transmission. He analyzes putative causes and the mechanisms by which pestilence becomes contagious, examines the bodily seat of disease and its interaction with other ailments, catalogs observable and prognostic signs, and outlines treatments employed during the crisis. Practical guidance for individual and civic prevention appears alongside prescriptions and antidotes, and the work closes with parish funeral statistics and an appended essay comparing causes and measures to limit future spread.

℞ Conserv. Rutæ, Flor. Rorismar. ana ℥ j. Species diambræ sine odoratis ʒ j. Balsam. è Mechâ ʒ [ss.] pulv. Croci angl. ℈ j. Syr. Balsam. q. s. ut F. Electuarium, cujus sum. quantitatem N. M. omni mane, & horâ somni superbibendo Haustulum Vini albi Lisbonensis, vel Hispanici, tepefacti. To the Night Dose of this, may be added sometimes 2 or 3 Grains of Camphire, especially if a Person feels any Indisposition that requires a breathing Sweat, some may perhaps like the following better.

℞ Cons. Rutæ ℥ j. Mithrid. ℥ [ss.] Pulv. Fol. Scordij ʒ j. rad. Contrayerv. Serpentarij Virgin. ana ʒ [ss.] Sal. volat. Viperar. Croci angl. ana ℈ j. Syr. Balsam. q. s. ut f. Elect. sumend. codem modo.

Or,

℞ Confect. Tracastorij sine Melle, Mithrid. ana ℥ [ss.] Boli veri, Terræ Japon. ana ʒ j. Castor. Salis succin. Croci angl. ana ℈ j. Confect. Alkerm. sine odoratis q. s. ut F. Electuarium ad usum prædictum, precipue h. somni.

BESIDES a precautionary Use of these with proper Diluters, and under the Direction of those who are Judges; some Security may possibly be had from odoriferous Substances to smell to, especially at a Time of conversing with the infected; for which Purpose I know of nothing so grateful and efficacious, as the Volatile Sal Armoniac, well impregnated with the essential Oils of Aromatick Ingredients, and as it is to be procured dry, to be kept in small Bottles, from a careful Distillation of the common Sal Volatile Oleosum. But if in any Cases more fetid Substances are preferable, Compositions may be easily made of such from Rue, Featherfew, Galbanum, Assa-fætida, and the like; for these, with some Persons agree better than more grateful Scents.

FREQUENTLY to dissolve in the Mouth the following Lozenges, or something like them, I also imagine may be of Service; especially to those who are conversant in infected Places.

℞ Boli veri opt. ℥ j. Terræ Japon. ʒ ij. Coral. rub. Margarit. opt. levigat. Flor. Benz. ana ʒ j. [ss.] ol. Cinnam. gut. xij. Sacchar. albis. lib. j. Mucelag. Gum. Tragacanth. in aq. Rosar. Dam. q. s. form. in Troch. ad usum prædictum. For those who like it, may be added some Ambergrease; enough to give a light Scent of it.

PRESERVATORY Evacuations of all kinds are much disputed in these Cases, and not worth our particular Regard in this Place; for thus much is plain to all who are competent Judges in such Matters, that but very few Circumstances can justifie them; because every Evacuation, unless that of Perspiration, gives more Liberty for any Thing noxious without, to insinuate into the Pores, as there is made thereby less Resistance to its Admission; not to say any Thing of the Danger in such a Practice, by lessening at the same Time the Quantities of Spirits and Strength, which cannot but be mischievous: And particularly ought all Persons at such Times to avoid too lax a Temper of Body; for which Purpose, these preservatory Means just hinted at, mostly tend to astringe the Bowels, and increase Perspiration.

FINIS.

A Table of the Funerals

IN THE

Several Parishes within the Bills of Mortality
of the City of LONDON,
For the Year 1665.

 No. of
Funerals		Plag.
ST. Albans Woodstreet200121
St. Alhallows Barkin514330
St. Alhallows Bread-street3516
St. Alhallows the Great455426
St. Alhallows Honey-lane105
St. Alhallows the Less239175
St. Alhallows Lombardstreet9062
St. Alhallows Staining185112
St. Alhallows the Wall500356
St. Alphage271115
St. Andrew Hubbard7125
St. Andrew Undershaft274189
St. Andrew Wardrobe476308
St. Anne Aldersgate282197
St. Anne Black-Friers652467
St. Antholins5835
St. Austins4320
St. Bartholomew Exchange7351
St. Bennet Finch4722
St. Bennet Grace-church5741
St. Bennet Pauls Wharf355172
St. Bennet Sherehog111
St. Botolph Billinsgate8350
Christ Church653467
St. Christophers6047
St. Clements Eastcheap3820
St. Dionys Back-church7827
St. Dunstans in the East265150
St. Edmunds Lombardstreet7036
St. Ethelborough195106
St. Faiths10470
St. Fosters144105
St. Gabriel Fenchurch6939
St. George Botolph-lane4127
St. Gregories by Pauls376232
St. Helens10875
St. James Dukes-place262190
St. James Garlickhith189118
St. John Baptist Walbrook13883
St. John Evangelist9
St. John Zachary8554
St. Katherine Coleman-street299213
St. Katherine Cree-church335201
St. Lawrence Jewry9448
St. Lawrence Pountney214140
St. Leonard Eastcheap4227
St. Leonard Foster-lane335255
St. Magnus10330
St. Margaret Lothbury10066
St. Margaret Moses3825
St. Margaret New Fishstreet11466
St. Margaret Pattons4924
Sr. Mary Abchurch9954
St. Mary Aldermanbury181109
St. Mary Aldermary10575
St. Mary-le-Bow6436
St. Mary Bothaw5530
St. Mary Colechurch176
St. Mary Hill9464
St. Mary Mounthaw5637
St. Mary Somerset342262
St. Mary Stainings4727
St. Mary Woolchurch6533
St. Mary Woolnoth7538
St. Martins Ironmonger-lane2111
St. Martins Ludgate196128
St. Martins Orgars11071
St. Martins Outwich6034
St. Martins Vintrey417349
St. Matthew Friday-street246
St. Maudlins Milk-street4422
St. Maudlins Old Fish-street176121
St. Michael Bassishaw253164
St. Michael Cornhil10452
St. Michael Crooked-lane179133
St. Michael Queenhith203122
St. Michael Quern4418
St. Michael Royal152116
St. Michael Woodstreet12262
St. Mildred Bread-street5926
St. Mildred Poultrey6846
St. Nicholas Acons4628
St. Nicholas Coleabby12591
St. Nicholas Olaves9062
St. Olaves Hart-street237160
St. Olaves Jewry5432
St. Olaves Silver-street250132
St. Pancras Soper-lane3015
St. Olaves Jewry5432
St. Olaves Silver-street250132
St. Pancras Soper-lane3015
St. Peters Cheap6135
St. Peters Cornhil13676
St. Peters Pauls Wharf11486
St. Peters Poor7947
St. Stephens Coleman-street560391
St. Stephens Walbrook3417
St. Swithins9356
St. Thomas Apostle163110
Trinity Parish11579
In the 97 Parishes within the Walls, Total of the Funerals 15207; Died of the Plague 9887.
St. Andrew Holborn39583103
St. Bartholomew the Great493344
St. Bartholomew the Less193139
St. Bridget21111427
Bridewel Precinct230179
St. Botolph Aldersgate997755
St. Botolph Aldgate49264051
St. Botolph Bishopsgate34642500
St. Dunstans in the West958665
St. George Southwark16131260
St. Giles Cripplegate80694838
St. Olaves Southwark47932785
St. Saviours Southwark42353446
St. Sepulchres45092746
St. Thomas Southwark475371
Trinity Minories168123
At the Pesthouse159156
In the 16 Parishes without the Walls, Total of the Funerals 41351; Died of the Plague 28888.
St. Giles in the Fields44573216
Hackney Parish232132
St. James Clerkenwel18631377
St. Katherines Tower956601
Lambeth Parish798537
St. Leonards Shoreditch26691949
St. Magdalens Bermondsey19431363
St. Mary Newington12721004
St. Mary Islington696593
St. Mary Whitechappel47663855
Rotherhith Parish304210
Stepney Parish85986583
In the 12 Parishes in the outer Parts, Total of the Funerals 28554; Died of the Plague 21420.
St. Clements Danes19691319
St. Paul Covent Garden408261
St. Martins in the Fields48042883
St. Mary Savoy303198
St. Margarets Westminster47103742
Whereof at the Pesthouse—156
In the 5 Parishes of the City and Liberties of Westminster, Total of the Funerals 12194; Died of the Plague 8403.
Total of the Funerals — 97306.

Died of the Plague — 68596.

Besides many, of which no Account was given by the Parish-Clerks, and who were privately Buried.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] De Bello Punico.

[2] Lib. 10. Cap. 3.

[3] Tom. 1. memorab. Cent. 10.

[4] In his Scholium upon Obs. 9. Lib. 6.

[5] De Peste, Lib. 6.

[6] De Peste, Lib. 1.

[7] Præf. de Imperio Solis ac Lunæ, &c.

[8] Lib. 8. Segon. 70.

[9] Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire, Chap. 2.

[10] De Medicin. Egypt. Lib. 1. Cap. 15.

[11] Hist. India and Brasil.

[12] De Bello Judaico, Lib. 7. Cap. 26.

[13] De Bello Civili, Lib. 2.

[14] Lib. 6. Obser. 9. and 26.

[15] Lib 1. de differ. Feb. Cap. 3. & de cibis mali & boni succi.

[16] Comment, in Lib. de natalium, text. 4.

[17] Dissert. de Peste.

[18] De montis Vesuvii Incendio.

[19] Hist. 73.

[20] Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire, Chap. 3. Par. 31.

[21] Nat. Hist. Cap. 18. Sect. 4.

[22] No. 3.

[23] Vid. Epidem. and de Aere, Aquis & Locis.

[24] Vid. Comment. in Epidem. Hippocrates.

[25] Hist. Ind. & Brasil.

[26] Probl. 1.

[27] Lib. 1. Decad. 4.

[28] Lib. 15. Cap. 10.

[29] Epidem. Lib. 2 & 3. de Aere Aquis & Locis. Aph. 11. Sect. 3.

[30] Comment. in Epidem. Lib. 3. de differ. Febr. Cap. 4. de Temperam Lib. 1. Cap. 4.

[31] Vid. Purchas Pilgr. Lib. 6. C. 1. as also Joan. Les Hist. Afric. Lib. 1. Cap. 1.

[32] Medicina Statica. Sect. 2. Aph. 18.

[33] Ibid. Aph. 6, and 29.

[34] Lib. 3. Epidem.

[35] De Abdit. Lib. 2. Cap. 12.

[36] Ibid.

[37] De Febr. purp. Cap. 2.

[38] Lib. 5. decad.

[39] De Antris Lethiferis, Art. 2.

[40] Loco cit.

[41] Ovid. Met. m. lib. 7.

[42] De morbis contag. lib. 2. cap. 7.

[43] De Bello Illyrico.

[44] De Medic. Egypt.

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    4  whose Spirits being manifesty[manifestly] sunk
   30  from the most irrefrigable[irrefragable] Authority,
   67  and their Restautation[Restauration], Confirmation, and Vigour,
   67  in a very particlar[particular] Manner,
   91  Coats, being endewed[endowed] with an exquisite Sense,
  107  and by whose colliquitive[colliquative] Quality
  108  Some cotinued[continued] in a Profusion of Sweat
  116  its Origin was from the Arteral[Arterial] and Venal Fluids;
  117  where they of themselves chrvstallize,[chrystallize] by Means
  127  and killed her in a[delete] about three Days
  133  as the Cofiguration[Configuration] of Vessels
  138  went no further than the Skin, would oftentimes shough[slough] off
  146  the Case if likewise noc[not] much better when
  147  likewise brings on a dangerous Colliquitation[Colliquatation],
  152  Chapter VI[VII]
  152  a pestilential Infection is extreamely[extreamly] dangerous,
  156  for if the other Sumptoms[Symptoms] do not remit
  158  Meadow-sweet, Butter-Burr[Butterbur], &c.
  168  Decoctions may coveniently[conveniently] be made
  176  An Alexiteral[Alexiterial] Water.  186  their doing eirther[either] Injury to themselves
  190  which some, however, liked better to ule[use]
  204  studiously avoided all Points of Con-[delete] Controversy;
  205  admoniihes[admonishes] us to use all possible Endeavours
  208  agitate the poisonous Mismata[Miasmata],
  212  rosatæ [dram] ij. trcchisc[trochisc]. de rhabarb.
  215  in colaturâ ad lentum B. calorenz[calorem] dissolve Aloës
  249  continued cold Rains, as likewise does Fermelius[Fernelius]  252  that is taken Notice off[of] by Physicians
  260  small Quantity of some fermening[fermenting] Substances
  275  that the Antecedents to a pestilenlential[pestilential] Fever
  283  this kind are cheifly[chiefly] Storax  283  the like: I cannot but imagin[imagine], that for this
  288  is plain to all who who[delete] are competent Judges
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