Small-pox, 35, 78, 98, 112, 116, 120; confluent, 22; pestilential, at Mecca, 27; treatment of, 131; virulent, 111 ---- and measles, 24 Smith, Dr. Southwood, 234 Sneezing induced by conditions of the atmosphere, 27 Snow, heavy fall of, 169 ---- in harvest-time, 32 Snow-storm, a, 100 Socrates on bathing, 231 Solemn processions, 67 Sore throat, gangrenous, 99, 128; scarlet, 24; epidemic, 30 ‘Sorte-diod,’ the, 50 Southwark, a great fire in, 112 Spain, earthquake in, 10, 75; famine in, 23; leprosy in, 15, 33; temperature of, 15 Spaniards, cleanliness and moderation among the, 5; their immunity from a pestilence, 4 Spanish epidemiology, the first epoch of, 2, 198 Spiders, 98, 119 Spleen, gangrene of the, 162 Sporadic cholera, 174 Spotted fever, 75, 80, 88 St. Anthony, 64; St. Anthony’s fire, 39 St. Fechin, 28 St. Gerald, 28 St. Gregory, 25; St. Gregory’s ‘History of the Franks,’ _ibid._ St. Guy, the dancing disease of, 56 St. Margaret, 64 St. Narcissus, 43 St. Paul’s at Rome destroyed by earthquake, 29 St. Sebastian, feast of, deferred, 67 St. Vitus, dance of, 32; Hecker’s account of, 56 ----’s torrent, 81 Stagnant pools and marshes, 150 Starvation in London, 38 Statistics of pestilence, 53; of Dublin Lying-in Hospital, 226 Statius, 231 Stews, public, Bishop Winton on, 73 Stinking mists, 86 Stokes, Dr., 176 Storm, severe, 118; violent, 61, 76 Storms, 2, 10, 11, 16, 65, 108, 120, 127, 133, 140; in Judea, 23; in Thuringia and Saxony, 81 Stow, 43, 44, 53 Strange phenomenon in the tides, 111 Strasburg, dancing plague at, 63 Suabia, earthquake in, 78 Subterraneous thunder, 47 ‘Sudor Anglicus,’ the, 70 Suetonius, 17 Summer, cold and wet, 32; dry, 35; fogs, 80; hot, 18, 38, 41, 84, 86, 98, 104, 114, 137, 145, 146; wet, 75 Sun, eclipse of the, 37 Sutton, Dr., 173 Swarms of flies, 42; of locusts, 46, 68, 69, 76, 81 Sweating sickness, the, 70, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 114, 119 Switzerland, earthquake in, 136 Sydenham, 109, 161, 206 Symptoms of a pestilence at Carthage, 8 Syphilis at Naples, 73 Syria, earthquake in, 29, 47; inundation in, 34; loimos in, 21 ‘Tac,’ the, 61 Tacitus, 16, 17, 204 Tadpoles, metamorphosis of, 221 Tagus, the, overflowed, 83 ‘Tarantisme,’ 56 Tasso, 203 Temperature of Spain, 15 Tempests, 98, 99; violent, 30, 60 Tempestuous seasons, 32; weather, 44 Terrific plague, a, 48 Tertian epidemic, 139; fever, 132; fevers, epidemic, 112