The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year

advertisements, 81 , 96 , 105 , 142
AIDS, xvii, 284 , 288 – 89
Albemarle, duke of, 88 , 124 – 25 , 127 , 180 ,
201 , 218 – 19 , 225 – 28 , 255 – 56
Aldermen, Court of, 27 , 56 , 88 , 94 , 131 , 188 ,
220 – 23 , 231 , 251 .See alsoTurner, Sir Wil-
liam
alchemists.SeeAllin, John
Allin, John: alchemy and astrology of, 5 ,
21 , 96 , 110 – 11 , 248 ; faith and fear of, 188 ,
213 , 242 ; family needs and resources, 4 ,
166 , 213 , 242 ; and flight, 80 , 90 , 94 ;
medical practice of, 4 – 5 , 94 , 213 , 242 ,
270 ;new quarters required by, 213 ,270;
on plague, 5 , 47 , 68 , 110 , 112 ,151, 162;and
religious dissenters, 4 , 94 , 213 , 240 , 243
almanacs, 10 , 21 , 62 , 101 , 108 , 321 n. 31 .See
alsoastrology
Amsterdam, 13 , 36 – 37 , 51 , 205
Anglican church: abolition and restoration
of, 4 , 9 , 10 ; and licensing of doctors, 97 ;
plague services of, 86 – 87 , 92 , 103 , 117 ,
128 – 29 , 240 – 41 ; role in Great Plague,
231 .See alsoparishes; religious responses
to plague
anthrax, xvii, 272 – 73 , 279
antibiotics, 278 , 284 , 289 , 291
antidotes.Seepreventive measures; treat-
ments
apothecaries, 95 , 98 , 104 , 140 , 143 – 44 , 146 ,
148 – 49 , 251 , 325 n. 11 .See alsoBoghurst,
William
archeus, 150 – 52 , 282 , 326 n. 31

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astrology, 20 – 21 , 53 , 68 , 96 , 108 – 9 , 159 , 198.

See alsoalmanacs

Athens, Plague of, 5

Backwell, Edward, 29 , 125 , 159 , 163

Barwick, Dr. Peter, 92 , 123 , 141 – 42 , 277

Battersea, 39 , 200 , 212 .See alsoPatrick, Rev.

Symon

beadles, 56 , 115

bearers, 118 , 225 – 26 ;pay of, 189

Bedford, dukes of, 35 , 39 , 44

Bethlehem (Bedlam) hospital, 77 , 132 , 190 ,

253 , 269

Bible: ancient plague in, 5 ; consolatory

passages in, 68 , 70 , 91 , 83 , 103 , 129 , 237 ,

240 – 41 , 337 n. 23 ;and the year 1666 , 21

bills of exchange, 170 – 71 , 176 , 245

Bills of Mortality: compiling of, 32 , 45 ,

64 – 65 , 118 , 128 ; locations of, 14 , 202 .See

alsoburial practices; Great Plague chro-

nology; mortality and vulnerability

Bing, Stephen, 123 , 127 , 231

Black Death, 5 – 9 , 15 , 50 , 150 , 182 , 281 ;

meaning of term, 7

bleeding: criticized, 149 , 327 n. 48 ; Galenic

medicine and, 97 , 104 , 140 ; leeches used

for, 320 n. 10 ; practical uses of, 320 n. 17

Bludworth, Sir Thomas, 223 , 244 – 45 , 251 ,

253 , 264

Bocking, 200 , 208

Boddington, George, 233 – 35

Boghurst, William: character and interests

of, 1 , 60 , 63 , 266 ; criticisms by, 147 , 249 ,