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]