Marcus Curtius, 9 Mariana, 8, 10 Marselio Ficino, 78 Martin Arrendondo, 43 Martinez de Leyva, 48, 66 Mas, Dr. 100 Masdevall, Dr., 138 Mass, celebrated in Scio, 55 M’Culloch, 42 Meade, Dr. 209 Measles, 35, 98, 122, 138, 171; malignant, 110 Measles, preceding pestilences, 92 ----, small-pox and, 24 Measures, precautionary, 60 Mediterranean frozen over, 30, 39, 61; inundations round the, 23 Mephitic vapours, charging the air with, 12 Merriman, Dr., 169 Messina destroyed by earthquake, 114 Metamorphosis of tadpoles, 221 Meteors, 32, 40, 81, 99 Mexico, earthquake in, 136 Michaelis, 249 Middleton, Sir Hugh, 98 Mildew of corn, 113 Miliary fever, 120, 122 ---- pestilence, 111 Milroy, Dr. Gavin, on the cholera at Kurrachee, 177 Minchinhampton, churchyard of, 247 Miraculous bell of Velilla, 79 Mists, stinking, 86 ‘Mode of avoiding plague,’ 47 Moderation and cleanliness among the Spaniards, 5 Modern nomenclature, 188 Moist atmosphere, 59 Moisture, 80; excessive, 65, 66 ‘Morbeira,’ a, or Board of Health, 68 Morbid phenomena of a plague at Athens, 7 Morbus Gallicus, 71 ---- Hungaricus, 90 Morena, Dr., 122 Mormonites, disease among, 175 Mortal angina, 112 Mortality among sheep, 38; great, among the Lacedemonians, 31 Morton, 107 Mosaic ordinances, the, 248 Mosquitoes, 143; and flies, 114 Mould-spots, or signacula, 74 ---- and red water, 85 Mountain of Tsincheou, falling of, 46 Mox, Dr., 100 Murator, 3, 30 Murrain, 3, 35, 42, 51, 74, 120, 126, 128, 135, 142, 144, 155, 164, 180; among cattle, 31; among sheep, 42 Naples, earthquakes at, 103, 110, 143; syphilis at, 73; the disease of, _ibid._ Narses, pestilence in the time of, 26 Natural causes for pestilences, 214 Nature and causes of epidemic pestilences, 184–207 Navy, condition of the, 217 Necropolis, earthquake in, 19 New River, water first brought by the, to London, 98 Newgate, 225 Nicephorus, 22, 23, 27 Nicomedia, earthquake in, 19 Nile, the, 212; inundation of the, 23 Nomenclature, modern, 188 Nuestro Alonso, 16 Ocampo, 8 Odessa, earthquake at, 166 Œsophagitis, epidemic, 78 Old and New Testaments on the causes of maladies, 193 Ordinances, the Mosaic, 248 Organism of the earth, revolutions in the, 45 Origin of the venereal disease, 73 Orosius, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17 Otho’s army destroyed by pestilence, 31 Overflow of the Severn, 69 Ovid, 200 Palestine, earthquake in cities of, 23 Palmer-worms, 42 Papal jubilee, a, 55 Papiliones, 34 Parè, 85 Pasqual, 87 Patroclus, funeral of, 238 Paulus Diaconus, 26 Paving Act, a, passed, 131