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 ProphylaxisBascome, Edward
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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
Bascome, Edward
Epidemics -- History
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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
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