Pestilence among animals, 98 ----, the black, 50 ----, a bubonic, 79 ----, dead bodies of locusts producing, 30 ----, De Foe on the causes of, 206 ----, Egypt a hot-bed of, 195; fatal to breeding women and cattle, 10; a filthy smelling vapour causing, 49; the Kings of Ulster and Munster cut off by, 29; at Kurrachee, 212; of leprosy, 68; a ‘loimic,’ 18; long continuance of, 29; long continuance of, in Asia, 24; the Ligurian, 26 ----, a miliary, 111 ----, originating from famine, 28; petechial, 147 ----, rains and, 31 ----, statistics of, 53 ----, the true, 24 ----, yellow, 99, 100, 104, 113, 151, 153, 155, 157 ----, epidemic, nature and causes of, 184–207 ----, natural causes for, 214 Pestilential angina, 116; constitution, 187; or scarlet sore-throat, 24 ‘Pestis flava,’ 29 Petechial fever, 80, 128, 171 ---- pestilence, 147; treatment of, 94 Pharaoh IV., prodigies in the natural world in the reign of, 1 Phenomena, remarkable, 108 Philo on a ‘loimic’ pestilence, 18 Phrenitis, putrid fever with, 69 Picenum, famine in, 25 Pintor, 72 Plague, 24, 77, 103, 111, 112, 125, 136, 142, 145, 147, 149, 163, 164, 172; at Athens, morbid phenomena of a, 7 ----, bilious, 116, 141 ---- of Boja, the, 71 ----, cure for the, 84 ----, dreadful, 121, 124 ---- of Egypt, 200 ---- flies, 158 ----, the great, 183 Plague in London, 100, 104, 207 ----, mode of avoiding, 47 ---- of Siberia, the, 162 ----, a terrific, 48 ----, treatment of, 78, 94 Planets, origin of the venereal disease attributed to conjunction of the, 72 Pleurisies, 33, 35 Pliny, 17 Plutarch, 3, 7, 238 Poison, atmospheric, 79 Poisonous effects from disturbing a graveyard, 247 ---- vapours of lake Avernus, 4 Pompeii and Herculaneum, 17 Pompey’s army, leprosy in, 15 Pope and the Fleet ditch, 44 Pope Sextus erects a brothel at Rome, 67 Porcell, Dr., 89 Porpoises in the Baltic, disease among, 82 Potato disease, 172, 174, 176, 182 Pox, the French, 71 Prayers, public, 66; rogatory, 79 Precautionary measures, 60 Predisposing causes of disease, 191 Prevention, 217 Prisons on the Continent, 225; Savoy and Newgate, _ibid._ Processions, imprecatory, instituted, 55, 59; solemn, 67, 68 Procopius, 25, 26 Prodigies in the natural world in the reign of Pharaoh IV., 1 Profligacy and imposture, 63 Prophecy of Agabus, 17 Prophylaxis, or mode of preventing disease, 216–250 Prostitutes taxed, 67 Puerperal fever, 108, 138, 147 Puiz, Dr., 113 Purchas, 97 Putrid fever, a, 71; with phrenitis, 69 Quinsies, 88 Quinsey, 35, 98, 120 Quarantine, 211