The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
xx • Preface card catalogues at the Guildhall Library, he discovered plaguetime ledgers, business correspondence, and a rare mer ...
Preface • xxi encouraged us to begin with a smaller community that had lost nearly half its population in 1665 and 1666. As we s ...
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Prologue [1] They were all there at the beginning. In the heart of old London, Dr. Nathaniel Hodges was busily treating his pati ...
2 • The Great Plague from as far away as the North Country, Wales, and Scotland. Goods left the city, too; city merchants and su ...
Map 1. London in 1665 : Places and Persons 11 15 16 10 9 14 7 (^1213) 8 3 2 1 4 (^56) T h a m e s R i v e r tyburn fl ee tr iver ...
4 • The Great Plague stream Thames River port of Deptford. The cultured life to which his city friend Pepys aspired was Evelyn’s ...
Prologue • 5 Still, Allin enjoyed many skills and passionately followed his favorite pursuits of astrology, alchemy, and medical ...
6 • The Great Plague about the first pandemic, which had ravaged a wide area from the Mediter- ranean to China a millennium befo ...
Prologue • 7 Whatever the “plague” disease of the second pandemic was, it remained the most dreaded malady known to early modern ...
8 • The Great Plague spread the plague from person to person. “All fall down” was the sadness of sudden death, as people were kn ...
Prologue • 9 chronicled in riveting detail by a local tanner, was its worst.^21 The great his- torical demographer of plague, Je ...
10 • The Great Plague their loss of power, and a ban on all worship except at Anglican services made all dissenters—from moderat ...
Prologue • 11 figures for London’s second most deadly epidemic, in 1625. The loss of nearly 100 , 000 persons from all causes in ...
12 • The Great Plague tian ritual. In today’s Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Venice, commemorative monuments, votive altars, and ...
Prologue • 13 to their homes for treatment. The authorities gave in temporarily, but when the soaring number of infected househo ...
14 • The Great Plague Hôpital Saint Louis was part of an evolving grand scheme of specialized hospitals called the General Hospi ...
Prologue • 15 of plague relief.^38 The parish was to be the prime source of assistance in Lon- don during the Great Plague of 16 ...
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