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
High tide in the Thames, 39
High tides, 42
Hippocrates, 7, 143, 186, 201, 212;
Hippocrates and Artaxerxes, 7
Histories of ancient nations, 186
History of St. Vitus, 64
Homer, 164, 238;
on the causes of pestilence, 199
Horses, an epizootic among, 66, 78;
disease among, 42
Hospital, Haslar, 138;
of St. Anthony, established, 39;
statistics of Dublin Lying-in, 226
Hot and moist weather, 113
---- summer, 38, 41, 84, 86, 98, 104, 114, 137, 145, 146
Howard, 225
Humboldt, 222
Hurricane, 51, 169
Hutchison, 97, 99
Huxham, 161
Hygrometric influence, 192
Ice for thirty days, 30
Ignis sacer, 21, 28, 105
Ignes fatui, 69
Immunity of Frenchmen, 78;
of the Spaniards from a pestilence, 4
Imposture and profligacy, 63
Imprecatory chapel consecrated, an, 68
---- processions instituted, 55, 59
Inclement seasons, 40, 41, 42, 43, 65, 105, 108, 112, 131, 142,
145, 150, 168, 169, 170
Inclement seasons in England, Palestine, and Holland, 34
---- weather, 38, 81
Inducing famine, 12
Infected places deserted by vultures, 12
‘Infirmitas icteritia,’ 29
Inflammatory fever, with delirium, 69
Influence, atmospheric, 190
---- of devotion, 63
---- of trade and locality, 179
Influenza, 123, 124, 130, 147, 148, 156, 169, 170, 180, 181, 182
Inguinaria, 27
Inoculation at Constantinople, 120;
in the reign of Domitian, 18;
introduced into England, 122
Insects, 119, 124, 143;
generation of, 1, 14, 19;
rain of crimson, 3
Instances explanatory of the causes of maladies, 193;
of fatal effects from burial-grounds, 243, 245
Institution of the Salii, 3
Insurrection of English artizans, 77
Intemperate seasons, 31
Intense cold, 29, 32, 33;
frost, 139
Interment by the Greeks, 238
Intermittent, a pernicious, 107
Intramural burial, 137, 237
Introduction of leprosy into Italy, 15;
of variola into America, 71;
of the venereal disease into Europe, 72
Inundation in Gloucestershire, 69;
in Syria, 34;
of the Nile, 23;
of the Tiber, 30
Inundations, 10, 16, 18, 19, 20, 35, 37, 38, 42, 47, 59, 70, 80,
83, 99, 100, 103, 104, 112, 113, 120, 134, 140, 160;
at Canton, 46;
round the Mediterranean, 23
Ireland, earthquake in, 114
Isodorus, 23
Italy and Greece, earthquake in, 51
---- deluged, 29;
earthquake in, 29;
famine in, 23, 24, 30, 31, 33;
introduction of leprosy into, 15;
locusts in, 33
Jamaica, earthquake in, 113, 114
Jaundice, epidemic, 121
Jenner, Dr., 227
Jeremiah quoted, 195
Jerusalem, siege of, 3
Joinville, 40
Jornandes, 21
Juan de Banos, 74
Juan de Carmona, Dr., 93
Jubilee, a papal, 55
Judea, storms and drought in, 23
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