* * * * * [Illustration: Part of the original title page.] * * * * * Transcriber’s Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER’S AMENDMENTS near the end of the text. To preserve the alignment of tables and headers, this etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user’s device, such as Courier New, but another choice such as the proportional Lucida Sans Unicode font might render odd characters better. Words in italics are indicated like _this_. But the publisher also wanted to emphasize words in sentences already italicized, so he printed them in the regular font which is indicated here with: _The pirates then went to +Hispaniola+._ The FOOTNOTES: section is located near the end of the text. There are 20 grains to a scruple, 3 scruples to a dram (or “8-ball”), and 8 drams to the ounce. The following table shows the unusual symbols used in the prescriptions in this UTF-8 etext: Symbol Meaning ʒ dram, or drachm ℥ ounce ℈ scruple [ss.] semi (half measure) * * * * * _LOIMOLOGIA_: OR, AN Historical Account OF THE Plague in _London_ in 1665: With precautionary Directions against the like _Contagion_. By NATH. HODGES, M. D. And Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the City all that Time. To which is added, An ESSAY On the different Causes of PESTILENTIAL DISEASES, and how they become Contagious: WITH REMARKS On the Infection now in FRANCE, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here. By JOHN QUINCY, M. D. _LONDON_: Printed for _E. Bell_, at the _Cross Keys_ and _Bible_ in _Cornhill_; and _J. Osborn_, at the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Lombard-street_, 1720. [Illustration] THE PREFACE. _IT may be needless to acquaint the +Reader+ why the following +Sheets+ are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it._