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