Loimologia

About this eBook

Author

Quincy, John, -1722

Title

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Credits

Produced by Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Plague -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40106

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40106

Release Date

June 29, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LOIMOLOGIA : OR, AN Historical Account OF THE Plague in London in 1665:
2. 2.THE PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.SECTION I. Of the Rise and Progress of the late Plague .
5. 5.SECTION II. Of the Cause of a Pestilence, and a Contagion.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.SECTION IV. Of the Complication of a Pestilence with other Distempers, and particularly with the Scurvy.
8. 8.SECTION V. Of the manifest Signs of the late Pestilence.
9. 9.SECTION VI. The Prognostick Signs of the late Pestilence.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.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.
12. 12.OF THE Different Causes OF Pestilential Diseases , &c.
13. 13.A Table of the Funerals IN THE Several Parishes within the Bills of Mortality of the City of LONDON , For the Year 1665.
14. 14.FOOTNOTES:

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