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PESTILENCES PREVIOUS TO THE BLACK DEATH, CHIEFLY FROM FAMINES.
The plague of 664-684 described by Beda, and its probable relation to the plague of Justinian’s reign, 542- 4
Other medieval epidemics not from famine 9
Chronology of Famine Sicknesses, with full accounts of those of 1194-7, 1257-9, and 1315-16 15
Few traces of epidemics of Ergotism; reason of England’s immunity from _ignis sacer_ 52
Generalities on medieval famines in England 65
Medieval religious sentiment towards lepers 81
Leprosy-prevalence judged by the leper-houses,--their number in England, special destination, and duration 86
Things favouring Leprosy in the manner of life--Modern analogy of Pellagra 107
Arrival of the Black Death, and progress through Britain, with contemporary English and Irish notices of the symptoms 114
Inquiry into the extent of the mortality 123
Antecedents of the Black Death in the East--Overland China trade--Favouring conditions in China 142
Summary of causes, and of European favouring conditions 173
ENGLAND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH, WITH THE EPIDEMICS TO 1485.
Direct social and economic consequences in town and country 180
More lasting effects on farming, industries and population 190
The 14th century chronology continued 215
The public health in the 15th century 222
Plague &c. in Scotland and Ireland, 1349-1475 233
The First invasion of the Sweat in 1485 237
Extension of the Fourth Sweat to the Continent in 1529 256
Chronology of the outbreaks of Plague in London, provincial towns, and the country generally, from 1485 to 1556 282
Preventive practice in Plague-time under the Tudors 309
Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times 322
Chronology of Plague 1564-1592--Vital statistics of London 1578-1583 337
Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603--Skene on the Plague (1568) 360
Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period 371
GAOL FEVERS, INFLUENZAS, AND OTHER FEVERS IN THE TUDOR PERIOD.
Increase of Pauperism, Vagrancy, &c. in the Tudor period 387
Influenzas and other “strange fevers” and fluxes, 1540-1597 397
Evidence of its invasion of Scotland and England, in 1497 and subsequent years 417