Chapter X

PLAGUE, FEVER AND INFLUENZA FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I.
TO THE RESTORATION.

Growth of London in the Tudor and Stuart periods 471

The London Plague of 1603 474

Annual Plague in London after 1603 493

Plague in the Provinces, Ireland and Scotland, in 1603 and
following years 496

Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625 504

The London Plague of 1625 507

Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years 520

The London Plague of 1636 529

Fever in London and in England generally to 1643 532

War Typhus in Oxfordshire &c. and at Tiverton, 1643-44 547

Plague in the Provinces, Scotland and Ireland during the
Civil Wars 555

Fever in England 1651-52 566

The Influenzas or Fevers of 1657-59 568

CHAPTER XI.

SICKNESSES OF EARLY VOYAGES AND COLONIES.

Scurvy in the early voyages, north and south 579

The remarkable epidemic of Fever in Drake’s expedition of
1585-6 to the Spanish Main 585

Other instances of ship-fevers, flux, scurvy, &c. 590

Scurvy &c. in the East India Company’s ships: the treatment 599

Sickness of Virginian and New England voyages and colonies 609

Early West Indian epidemics, including the first of Yellow
Fever--The Slave Trade 613

The epidemic of 1655-6 at the first planting of Jamaica 634