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