Rain, blood-coloured, 82 ---- of crimson insects, 3 ----, long, 50; remarkable fall of, 150; a shower of, frozen, 111; in torrents, 46 Rains and pestilence, 31 ----, excessive, 30, 32, 40, 103; heavy, 39, 41, 54, 66, 70, 85, 86, 99, 104, 170 Ramon Vila, 46, 76 Rebuilding of London by Alfred, 30 Red water and mould-spots, 85 Registrar-General’s Report on the Influenza of 1847, 181, 182, 183 Remarkable phenomena, 108 Remedy for pestilential fever, 122 Remittent fever, 172, 176; on board the ‘Eclair,’ 174 Render, Rev. Dr., 245 Reports on Cholera, 169 Revolution in the organism of the earth, 45 Rhone, the, frozen over, 30 Rivére, 161 Ribeiro, Dr., 5 Riverius, 98 Rogatory prayers, 79 Romans, the ancient, and the bath, 231; malignant dysentery among the, 12 Rome, earthquake at, 9, 117; Pope Sextus erects a brothel at, 67; the site of, 204 Rosell, Dr., 100 Rush, Dr., 141 Russell, Dr. Patrick, 209 Russia, famine in, 33 Rye, disease in, 106 Rymer, 52 Sacrifices, 6 Sætabi, vapour baths of the, 5 Saguntum, earthquake at, 10 Saine, Dr., 125 Salii, institution of the, 3 Salted provisions, the use of, 15 Sanchez, Dr., 5, 72 Sanitary state of Madrid, 129 Sastre, Dr., 113 Sauvages, 15, 126 Savoy Prison, 225 Scarlatina, 116 Scarlet fever, 35, 142; sore-throat, 24 Schenckius, 74, 89 Scripture against contagion, 213 Scurvy, 21, 74; epidemic, 73 Sea broke out at Dort, 66 ----, Winchelsea swallowed up by the, 41 Seasons, intemperate, 31; inclement, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 65, 105, 108, 112, 131, 133, 142, 145, 150, 168, 169, 170 Senertus, 86, 161 Sepulture, Chinese mode of, 239 ‘Serpentine Disease,’ the, 84 Servius, 238 Severe frost, 37, 65, 66, 103, 113, 129, 140; storm, 118; winter, 30, 31, 35, 38, 41, 55, 94, 98, 137, 145, 148 Severn, the, overflowed, 69 Seville, earthquake at, 60 Sheep, mortality among, 38; murrain among, 42 Shipping, entry of, prohibited in Sicily, 75 Short, 29, 30, 97 Shower of fish, a, 163; of rain, frozen, 111 Showers, extraordinary, 59 Shropshire, earthquake in, 18 Siberia, the plague of, 162 Sibylline books, the, 9 Sicily, earthquake in, 142; entry of shipping prohibited in, 75 Sickness among the Edinburgh police, 227 ‘----, the great,’ 116 ----, the sweating, 70, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 114, 119 Siege of Jerusalem, 3; of Troy, 199 Signacula, or mould-spots, 74 Silius Italicus, 5 Simon, Mr., 222 Singular pestilence in Spain, 25 Site of Rome, the, 204 Skin, the functions of the, 235