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
----, 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
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