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Nathaniel Hodges
1629–1688
A London physician remembered for staying in the city during the Great Plague, he later turned that experience into one of the best-known firsthand medical accounts of the epidemic. His life links Restoration-era medicine, Oxford learning, and the chaos of plague-stricken London.
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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665
by Nathaniel Hodges, John Quincy
About the author
Nathaniel Hodges was an English physician, born in 1629 and dead in 1688. He studied at Oxford and built his medical career in London, where he became closely associated with the outbreak of the Great Plague of 1665.
He is best known for remaining in London while many others fled and for treating plague patients during the epidemic. That experience shaped his lasting reputation and later fed into the work for which he is most remembered, Loimologia, a detailed account of the plague and its effects.
Today, Hodges is mainly remembered not as a literary figure but as a working doctor who left behind a vivid record of one of London's worst public health disasters. His writing has kept his name alive as both a medical witness and a participant in that history.