----, 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