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

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Whitechapel, 316 n. 9
Whitehall Palace, 1 , 25 , 34 ; grass in court-
yard of, 177 , 178
Whitelocke, Bulstrode, 64
Willis, Dr. Thomas, 61 , 63 , 81 , 93 , 101 , 156 ,
327 n. 49
witches, white, 95 , 109 – 10
Woolwich, 86 , 88 , 90 , 130
Wren, Christopher, 154 , 265

Yarmouth, 51 , 102 , 201 , 205
Yersin, Alexandre, 273 – 78
Yersinia pestis, 6 , 275 – 76 ; battle within the
human body, 282 – 83 ; cohabitation with
hosts and vectors, 276 , 278 – 82 , 284 – 86 ;

die-off of primary hosts and beginning

of the Great Plague, 281 – 82 ; endemic

and epidemic centers of, 278 ; human

pathology related to Great Plague, 273 ,

279 – 80 , 282 – 84 ; ribotype locations cor-

responding to pandemics’ geographic

spread, 286 – 87 ; second pandemic skele-

tal remains test positive for, 279 , 287 ;

vaccines and antibiotics against, 277 – 78 ,

279 , 284

Yersinia tuberculosis, 286 – 87

York, Anne Hyde, duchess of, 34 , 35 , 44 ,

208 ; philanthropy of, 44

York, James, duke of, 34 , 35 ; flight of, 209 ;

and naval affairs, 88 , 124