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

Index • 349

Defoe, Daniel: and astrology, 108 ; on be-
ginning of the Great Plague, 55 ; Bill of
Mortality reprinted by, 271 ; family of,
25 , 83 , 132 ; on flight, 83 , 199 ;Journal of
the Plague Year,xvii–xix, 6 , 16 , 271 ;and
plague pits, 188
Dekker, Thomas, 111 , 140 , 325 n. 6
Deptford, 3 – 4 , 90 , 126 , 202 , 213 – 14 .See also
Evelyn, John
Diemerbroeck, Isbrand, 61
disease classification, 5 – 6 , 62 , 65 , 78 , 272 – 73
diseases (nonplague): in early modern
Germany, 314 n. 25 ; epidemic mortality
from, 64 , 66 – 67 , 81 , 134 – 35 , 165 , 181 – 82 ,
282 ; and microbial revolution, 272 – 73 ;
new and reemerging, 284 , 288 – 92 .See
alsochildbed and infant mortality;
cholera; fevers; malaria; smallpox
dissection, 149 – 52 , 154 , 327 n. 41
dissenters: in Colchester, 204 , 206 ; criti-
cisms of governing behavior and policy,
21 , 218 – 19 , 227 ; ministers succumb to
plague, 165 ; omitted from Bills of Mor-
tality, 178 ; oppression of, 4 , 9 – 10 , 116 ,
189 , 211 , 213 , 222 , 227 ; plaguetime activity
of, 54 – 55 , 117 , 194 , 231 , 234 , 237 , 240 .See
alsoQuakers
doctors (medical): in public service,
144 – 48 ; training and licensing of, 97 .See
alsoapothecaries; chemical physicians;
College of Physicians; Galenic med-
icine; medical practitioners; surgeons
dog and cat killing, 115 – 16 , 119 , 253 .See also
causes and carriers associated with
plague
Doyly, Sir William, 201 , 205 – 6
Dryden, John and Elizabeth, 36 , 91 – 92 ,
264
Dutch War: battle of Lowestoft, 86 – 87 ,
117 , 205 ; cost of, 86 , 159 , 172 , 209 – 10 , 252 ,
257 , 338 n. 19 ; defeat in, 255 ; early phases
of, 33 , 37 , 51 – 52 .See alsoEvelyn, John;
Pepys, Samuel

Earls Colne.SeeJosselin, Rev. Ralph

Ebola, 279 , 289

“empiricks,” 97 , 149

Evelyn, John, 2 ; as commissioner, 2 , 37 , 48 ;

cost and burden of sailors’ care by, 37 ,

86 , 201 – 2 , 210 , 238 – 39 ; fear and faith of,

128 – 29 , 202 , 210 , 213 , 238 – 39 , 255 – 56 ;and

Great Fire, 264 – 65 ; health and medicine

of, 238 – 39 ; and Mary Evelyn, 213 – 14 ,

239 – 40 , 267 ; plague near home of, 126 ,

202 , 213 , 238 – 39 , 256 ; and public health

reform, 48 , 266 ; on public service, 2 , 210 ,

255

Evelyn, Mary, 2 , 213 , 238 – 40 , 255 – 56 , 267

Eyam, 208

famine, 8 , 27 , 67 , 167 , 169

fever, 36 – 37 , 47 – 48 , 60 – 64 , 66 , 78 , 81 ;as

identifier of plague, 63 ; progress from

simple to spotted fever and plague, 62 ,

78 .See alsochemical physicians; Galenic

medicine

fleas, 57 , 62 , 276 , 279 – 82 , 285 – 86 , 292 , 342 n.

48

flight, 317 n. 12 ; adage on, 71 ; country reac-

tion to, 84 – 85 , 90 – 91 , 128 – 29 , 201 – 2 ;de-

bates over, 83 – 84 , 86 , 91 – 93 , 317 n. 15 ,

337 n. 23 ; groups able to undertake, 79 –

80 , 89 – 93 , 100 , 117 , 127 , 161 ; impediments

to, 79 – 80 , 82 , 90 , 94 ; number involved

in, 11 , 89 ; peak and later departures, 89 –

91 , 128 , 202 ; returning to London, 244 –

45 , 247 – 51 ; staying on instead of, 92 – 94 ,

114 , 128

Florence, 7 , 8 , 12 , 24

Fracastoro, Girolamo, 71 , 156 , 252

Gadbury, John, 20 , 68

Galen, 5 , 70 , 97 , 101

Galenic medicine: humoral theory of, 97 ,

150 , 151 , 156 , 321 n. 31 ;and plague, 97 , 104 ,

140 – 41 , 149 ; and six nonnaturals, 97 , 103.

See alsoHodges, Dr. Nathaniel