Among the physicians who stayed in London to minister to the sick, Hodges mentions “Dr. Glisson, Regius Professor at Cambridge, Dr. Nath. Paget, Dr. Wharton, Dr. Berwick, Dr. Brookes, and many others.” And he further states that of these, eight or nine died. Hodges, however, survived, and he says: “I think it not amiss to recite the means which I used to preserve myself from the infection during the continual course of my business among the sick. As soon as I rose in the morning early, I took the quantity of a nutmeg of the antipestilential electuary; then, after the dispatch of private concerns in my family, I entered into a large room, where crowds of citizens used to be in waiting for me; and there I commonly spent two or three hours, as in an hospital, examining the several conditions and circumstances of all who came thither; some of which had ulcers yet uncured, and others to be advised under the first symptoms of seizure; all which I endeavoured to dispatch with all possible care to their various exigencies. As soon as this crowd could be discharged, I judged it not proper to go abroad fasting, and therefore got my breakfast. After which, till dinner-time, I visited the sick at their houses.... After some hours visiting in this manner I returned home. Before dinner I always drank a glass of sack, to warm the stomach, refresh the spirits, and dissipate any beginning lodgement of the infection. I chose meats for my table that yielded an easy and generous nourishment, roasted before boiled, and pickles, not only suitable to the meats but the nature of the distemper (and, indeed, in this melancholy time, the city greatly abounded with variety of all good things of that nature). I seldom likewise rose from dinner without drinking more wine. After this I had always many persons come for advice, and as soon as I could dispatch them I again visited till eight or nine at night, and then concluded the evening by drinking to cheerfulness of my old favourite liquor, which encouraged sleep and an easy breathing through the pores all night. But if in the daytime I found the least approaches of the infection upon me, as giddiness, loathing at stomach, and faintness, I immediately had recourse to a glass of this wine, which easily drove these beginning disorders away by transpiration. Yet in the whole course of the infection I found myself ill but twice; but was soon again cleared of its approaches by these means, and the help of such antidotes as I kept always by me.” It should be mentioned that during the infection Dr. Hodges wore an “issue” as a preventive measure, and he says: “Whenever I was most beset with pestilential fumes I could then immediately perceive a shooting pain in my issue, and had a great deal of ill-conditioned matter discharge therefrom; and this I always looked upon as a sure warning to have timely recourse to alexipharmicks.” The facts given by Dr. Munk concerning Hodges are the following: Nathaniel Hodges, son of