Loimologia

The treatise provides a first-hand account of the Great Plague of London; it has been described as the best medical record of the epidemic.

[3] The English translation (1720) was released while a plague was spreading throughout Marseilles, and people in England were fearful of another outbreak.

[4] To this 1720 edition was 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, by John Quincy.

[4] Loimologia was one of the sources used by Daniel Defoe when writing A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).

[4] Although the Soldiery retreated from the Field of Death, and encamped out of the City, the Contagion followed, and vanquish'd them; many in their Old Age, and others in their Prime, sunk under its cruelties; of the Female Sex most died; and hardly any children escaped; and it was not uncommon to see an Inheritance pass successively to three or four Heirs in as many Days; the Number of Sextons were not sufficient to bury the Dead.