signs and symptoms (continued)
356 • Indexogy of Yersinia pestisconsistent with,
273 , 278 – 80 , 282 – 84 ; “sign” as a portent,
314 n. 13 ; sources of knowledge on, 313 n.
10
smallpox, 60 , 64 , 77 – 78 , 81 , 259 , 289 , 290 – 91
spas, 80 – 81 , 92 , 142
Stavely, Anne, 77 , 80 , 91
surgeons: and Company of Barber-Sur-
geons, 95 , 98 – 100 ; and flight, 143 ; plague
service and mortality of, 144 , 146 , 148 ,
250 – 52 ; skills of, 100 , 104
Sydenham, Dr. William, 36 , 63 – 64 , 89 – 90 ,
104 , 148 ; traditional medical views of,
154 , 327 n. 41
taxes: excise tax, 107 ; hearth tax, 29 , 39 – 41 ;
plague taxes (first and second year), 220 ,
221 , 231 ; poor tax, 42 – 43 , 45 , 118 ; public
fires levy, 220 ; Royal Aid levies for the
Dutch War, 32 – 33 , 210
theaters, 36 , 47 , 52 , 91 , 116
Thomson, Dr. George: and the archeus’s
self-defense, 244 , 282 , 326 n. 31 ; buffo
frog cure of, 110 , 151 ; Galenic medicine
opposed by, 149 ; plague dissection by,
149 – 52 ; training and practice of, 149 ,
326 n. 37
Thucydides, 5
Tillison, John, 123 , 151 , 171 – 72 , 195 , 231
Tower of London, 23 , 33 , 193 , 222 , 224 , 227 ,
246
transportation: cost of, 82 , 90 ; land and
water, 30 – 31 ;means of flight, 80 , 89 ;
plague altering choices of, 124 – 25 ; tim-
ing requirements of modes of, 79 , 80 , 82 ,
204
treatments, 95 – 112 ; cure-alls, 95 – 96 , 110 – 12 ;
debatable effectiveness of, 8 , 305 n. 18 ,
324 n. 5 ; by doctors, apothecaries, and
surgeons, 104 ; lay recipes for, 101 , 105 ,
107 – 8 , 182 ; plague waters and drugs,
103 – 8 .See alsoantibiotics; Boghurst,
William; chemical physicians; Galenic
medicine; Hodges, Dr. Nathaniel; pre-
ventive measures; surgeons
tuberculosis, 64 , 273 , 289
Turner, Sir William, 1 , 27 – 28 ; aldermanic
and commercial careers of, 1 , 27 – 29 , 169 ;
assets and business practices of, 28 – 29 ,
117 , 158 – 59 , 169 – 71 , 245 , 269 ; character of,
28 , 170 , 171 , 245 , 269 , 338 n. 21 ; lender to
Charles II, 28 ; lord mayor, 265 ; master
of the Merchant Taylors’ guild, 28 , 169 ,
269 ; philanthropy of, 253 , 269 ; public
role of, 144 , 171 , 221 , 223 – 25 , 231 , 251 ; and
religion, 162 , 258 , 269unsanitary conditions, 14 , 25 , 32 ;govern-
mental policy on, 48 – 50 ;Great Fire
and, 265 ; in Hong Kong ( 1894 ), 275 ,
276 – 77 ; international conferences and,
271 – 272 ; plague related to, 285 , 342 n. 46 ;
and tuberculosis, 289 .See alsohousing;
plague measures (foreign); plague meas-
ures (London)vaccines, 272 , 277 – 78 , 284 , 291
Venice, 13 , 14
Vincent, Thomas, 129 , 237 , 240
Vyner family, 29 , 87 , 114 , 125 , 132 , 159water supply, 49 – 50 , 265
watermen and lightermen, 16 , 162 , 169 , 173 ,
174 , 176 ; fees raised by, 125 ; flight aided
by, 89
weather: in winter of 1664 – 65 , 22 , 44 – 45 ;in
spring, 57 ; in summer, 102 , 113 – 14 , 177 ;in
fall and winter of 1665 – 66 , 178 , 212 , 246 ,
248
Westminster, “city and suburbs of ”: cour-
tier area of, 25 – 26 , 89 ; defined, 31 – 32 ;
described, 34 ; influx of country and
metropolitan nobility to, 32 , 34 – 35 .See
alsoSaint Margaret Westminster; Saint
Paul Covent Garden
Westminster Abbey, 32 , 34
Wharton, Dr. Thomas, 148