Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665. John Quincy

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Table of Contents

       SECTION I. Of the Rise and Progress of the late Plague .

       SECTION II. Of the Cause of a Pestilence, and a Contagion.

       SECTION III. Of the primary Seat of a Pestilence; where, 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 other Distempers, and particularly with the Scurvy.

       SECTION V. Of the manifest Signs of the late Pestilence.

       SECTION VI. The Prognostick Signs of the late Pestilence.

       SECTION VII. Concerning the Cure of the late Pestilence.

       A Compound Antipestilential Decoction.

       An Alexiterial Water.

       A Treacle-Water.

       A Diaphoretick Oil.

       An Alexipharmick Vinegar.

       The famous Sir Theodore Mayerne ’s Electuarium de Ovo .

       Mayerne ’s celebrated Cordial-water.

       SECTION VIII. Of Preservation from a Pestilence.

       An Antipestilential Electuary of Mayerne .

       An Electuary for the Poor.

       An Antipestilential Confection.

       Antipestilential Pills.

       Antipestilential Elixir Proprietatis .

       Lozenges against the Plague.

       OF THE Different Causes OF Pestilential Diseases , And how they become Contagious.

       OF THE Different Causes OF Pestilential Diseases , &c.

       A Table of the Funerals IN THE Several Parishes within the Bills of Mortality of the City of LONDON , For the Year 1665.

SECTION I.

       Of the Rise and Progress of the late Plague.

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      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.

      BUT as soon as it was rumoured amongst the common People, who are always enough astonished at any Thing new, that the Plague was in the City, it is impossible to relate what Accounts were spread of its Fatality, and well were it, had not the Presages been so ominous; every one predicted its future Devastations, and they terrified each other with Remembrances of a former Pestilence; for it was a received Notion amongst the common People, that the Plague visited England once in Twenty Years; as if after a certain Interval, by some inevitable Necessity, it must return again. But although this Conceit, how well soever justify’d by past Experiences, did not so much obtain with Persons of more Judgment, yet this may be affirmed, that it greatly contributed, amongst the Populace, both to propagate and inflame the Contagion, by the strong Impressions it made upon their Minds.

      AND these frightful Apprehensions were not a little increased by the Predictions of Astrologers, from the Conjunctions of Stars, and the Appearances of Comets; for although but little Regard was given to such Things by Persons of Thought, yet Experience daily shewed, what Influence they had with the meaner Sort, whose Spirits being manifestly sunk by such Fears, rendered their Constitutions less able to resist the Contagion. Whosoever duly considers it, can never imagine that this Pestilence had its Origin СКАЧАТЬ