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English writings on the Pox in the Elizabethan period, with some notices for the Stuart period 423 The circumstances of the great European outbreak in 1494—Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII. 429   CHAPTER IX. SMALLPOX AND MEASLES. First accounts of Smallpox in Arabic writings—Nature of the disease 439 European Smallpox in the Middle Ages 445 Measles in medieval writings—Origin of the names “measles” and “pocks” 448 First English notices of Smallpox in the Tudor period 456 Great increase of Smallpox in the Stuart period 463 Smallpox in Continental writings of the 16th century 467   CHAPTER X. PLAGUE, FEVER AND INFLUENZA FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TO THE RESTORATION. Growth of London in the Tudor and Stuart periods 471 The London Plague of 1603 474 Annual Plague in London after 1603 493 Plague in the Provinces, Ireland and Scotland, in 1603 and following years 496 Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625 504 The London Plague of 1625 507 Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years 520 The London Plague of 1636 529 Fever in London and in England generally to 1643 532 War Typhus in Oxfordshire &c. and at Tiverton, 1643-44 547 Plague in the Provinces, Scotland and Ireland during the Civil Wars 555 Fever in England 1651-52 566 The Influenzas or Fevers of 1657-59 568   CHAPTER XI. SICKNESSES OF EARLY VOYAGES AND COLONIES. Scurvy in the early voyages, north and south 579 The remarkable epidemic of Fever in Drake’s expedition of 1585-6 to the Spanish Main 585 Other instances of ship-fevers, flux, scurvy, &c. 590 Scurvy &c. in the East India Company’s ships: the treatment 599 Sickness of Virginian and New England voyages and colonies 609 Early West Indian epidemics, including the first of Yellow