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

With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion . By Nath. Hodges, M. D. And Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the City all that Time.
To which is added, An
ESSAY
On the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious:
WITH REMARKS On the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here.
By John Quincy, M. D.
LONDON :
Printed for E. Bell , at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill ; and J. Osborn , at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street , 1720.
IT may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it.
THE Treatise of Dr. Hodges contains the best Account of the late Visitation by a Plague here in England, of any hitherto
extant; and though some Readers may indeed observe, that the Enthusiastick Strain of the preceeding Times very much hurts his Style and Perspicuity; such an Influence had the Spirit of Delusion even over Matters of Science: However, the most affected Peculiarities and Luxuriancies of that kind are here avoided.
WHAT is hereunto added, hath been partly extracted from Papers wrote some Years ago, and partly put together since our present Apprehensions from Abroad. The Enumeration of so many Causes of a Pestilence, or like Changes, as have no Relation to the present Case, may to some perhaps seem superfluous; but my Design hereby, was only the better to inculcate a right Understanding of a Contagion, which is the last Consequence, and highest Degree of Aggravation they are capable of rising to; and gradually to lead Persons, not well accustomed to such Matters, from the more obvious, to the more secret Means of bringing such terrible Changes into our Constitutions.