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 - Edward Bascome

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]