SECTION III. Of the primary Seat of a Pestilence; where, 66 by the Way, is considered the Nature of the Spirits, and their Infection in an humane Body from Poison. SECTION IV. Of the Complication of a Pestilence with 76 other Distempers, and particularly with the Scurvy. SECTION V. Of the manifest Signs of the late Pestilence. 85 SECTION VI. The Prognostick Signs of the late Pestilence. 140 SECTION VII. Concerning the Cure of the late Pestilence. 152 SECTION VIII. Of Preservation from a Pestilence. 205 OF THE DIFFERENT CAUSES OF PESTILENTIAL DISEASES, AND HOW THEY BECOME CONTAGIOUS: 231 A TABLE OF THE FUNERALS IN THE SEVERAL PARISHES WITHIN THE BILLS OF MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON, FOR THE YEAR 1665: 289 [Illustration] _LOIMOLOGIA_: OR, AN ACCOUNT, _&c._ SECTION I. _Of the Rise and Progress of the late_ PLAGUE. THE Plague which we are now to give an Account of, discovered the Beginnings of its future Cruelties, about the Close of the Year 1664; for at that Season two or three Persons died suddenly in one Family at _Westminster_, attended with like Symptoms, that manifestly declared their Origin: Hereupon some timorous Neighbours, under Apprehensions of a Contagion, removed into the City of _London_, who unfortunately carried along with them the pestilential Taint; whereby that Disease, which was before in its Infancy, in a Family or two, suddenly got Strength, and spread Abroad its fatal Poisons; and meerly for Want of confining the Persons first seized with it, the whole City was in a little Time irrecoverably infected. Not unlike what happened the Year following, when a small Spark, from an unknown Cause, for Want of timely Care, increased to such a Flame, that neither the Tears of the People, nor the Profusion of their _Thames_, could extinguish; and which laid Wast the greatest Part of the City in three Days Time: And therefore as there happens to be no great Difference between these two grievous Calamities, this Mention of them together may not be improper; and the more especially, because by a like irresistable Fate from a Fever and a Conflagration, both the Inhabitants and their Houses were reduc’d to Ashes.