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Λοιμόλόγια sive pestis nuperae apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica.

Publication Details

London: J. Nevill, 1672 CE.

Best medical record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was physician to the City of London and the medical hero of the great epidemic.

English translation by John Quincy, 1720: 

Loimologia, or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665 : with precautionary directions against the like contagion.

Digital facsimile of the 1721 third edition of the translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

 

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#5121
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/6095
Author Bio LinkRoyal College of Physicians ↗
External URLsive-pestis-nuperae-apud-populum-londinensem-grassantis-narratio-historica

Geographic Context

Publication place: London