Historical Bibliography Updated: May 17, 2020
Loimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665
Publication Details
London: Shaw & Sons, 1894 CE.
This work was written in 1666 and first published as above. Boghurst, an apothecary, did good work during the great plague; in his book he differentiated plague from typhus. Payne’s introduction to the book contains some valuable historical data.
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Thematic Classifications
| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #5120 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/6092 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | loimographia-an-account-of-the-great-plague-of-london-in-the-year-1665-by-william-boghurst-now-first-printed-from-the-british-museum-sloane-ms-349-for-the-epidemiological-society-of-london |
Geographic Context
Publication place: London