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Priests, 291 Printing, 293 Prisoners, 294 Processions, 295 Prophylaxes, 296 Prostitutes, 297 Public Health, 298 Public Sanitation, 300 Purgatives, 302 Purgatory, 303 Quarantine, 305 Rats and Other Plague Carriers, 307 Reformation and Protestantism, 308 Remedies, External, 310 Remedies, Internal, 311 Repopulation, 312 Rome, Italy, 314 St. Januarius (San Gennaro d. c. 305), 317 St. Michael the Archangel, 317 St. Nicholas of Tolentino (1245–1305), 317 St. Roche, 318 St. Rosalia, 318 St. Sebastian, 319 Scientific Revolution, 320 Searchers, 321 Second Plague Pandemic (1340s–1840s), 321 Septicemic Plague, 322 Servants, Household, 323 Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), 324 Shutting In, 325 Signs of Plague, 327 Simond, Paul-Louis (1858–1947), 328 Sin, 329 Social Construction of Disease, 330 Sumptuary Laws, 332 Surgeons/Barbers, 333 Sydenham, Thomas (1625–1689), 334 Syrups and Electuaries, 335 Ta’un, 337 Taxes and Public Finance, 337 Tears against the Plague, 338 Theriac and Mithridatum, 339 Third Plague Pandemic, 340 Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), 341 “Three Living Meet Three Dead”, 342 Toads, 343 Tobacco, 343 Transi Tombs, 344 Triumph of Death, 345 Tumbrels, 346 Urine and Uroscopy, 347 Valesco de Tarenta (d. after 1426), 349 Van Diemerbroeck, Isbrand (Ysbrand, IJsbrand 1609–1674), 349 Van Helmont, Joan Baptista (Johannes Jan 1579–1644), 350 Venice, Italy, 351 Vesalius, Andreas (1514–1564), 352 Vienna, Austria, 353 Vinario, Raimondo Chalmel de (Magister Raimundus Chalmelli Chalin d. after 1382), 354 Virgin Mary, 354 Virgin Soil Disease, 356 Wands, 359 Wills and Testaments, 359 Witches and Witchcraft, 360 Wither, George (1588–1667), 361 Women Medical Practitioners, 361 Yeoman Farmers and Gentry, 365 Yersin, Alexandre (1863–1943), 366 Contents ix