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Hodges, Nath., and Quincy, John.
Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion [...] To which is added, an Essay on the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious: With Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here.
Publisher: Printed for E. Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill; and J. Osborn, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-Street, London;
Date of Publication: 1720
Stock Code: 14396
Second English edition, with the comma after ‘Bell’. Octavo, pp., vi, 288, plus folding table of plague deaths in the City of London. Library quarter rexine on textured cloth by Chivers, titled in gilt to spine, edges mottled blue. Bookplate of South Shields Public Libraries to front paste-down, cymbiform ownership stamp of South Shields Master Mariners’ Asylum to title-page, a dozen or so unobtrusive South Shields library stamps throughout. Shelf-wear to spine tips, top edge dusty. Light scattered foxing to prelims, and very occasionally to further select leaves. A very good copy with the unusual provenance a seafarer’s almshouse library. English translation of the 1672 Latin original, which one of the most exhaustive accounts of the Plague Year of 1665-6. One of the key sources for Daniel Defoe’s ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ (1722). This volume, unlike Defoe’s novel, is factual. Hodges was medical advisor to the City of London, his biographer writes ‘Hodges's insistence on staying in London during the plague is an action for which he has been all but canonized by medical historians; his account of his practice in this period, cautiously used, remains one of the best sources of information on the medical and social effects of this disease’. The folding “Table of the Funerals in the Several Parishes within the Bills of Mortality of the City of London, for the Year 1665” totals 28,888 recorded plague victims for that year. £380.00