The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-10-15
Monday, Oa05er 18th. 1898.
Hiltorical Facts,
Pslatiss to The Plague, YeHozO Esver, 90.

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gaiqg t6s peculiar qvi1ksAne, irreFgioa and frgq
II g1cy e The ttneS, icing fbe guify igrumsufS Of
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fed land Sbanis on faeb faaaticilaal Hi5 a fla
that Moral Yirtue ae0sr rad more q2tar;es fb0a
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bave pron0aaerd fbe beavea. CONDITIONED jfoarge
y sf dsn9raiijsa nan, u not only noi an imported
dsrder, but an nbabitant Of IBIS country fran time
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II ssgIvy to txtrzs tie f0oqoiag aafemsat Of bfor4
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From the New-York Commercial Advertiser.
u A T this time If diarcfs and alarm when a
~ dready peltilence is laying waite forne Of
fur mott populous and wealthy cities, the in
ikabitants Of town and country are anziouf
III inquiring, what are the canf.s What the
means Of prevention o. of cure Why has
sfor this deadly fever RACED before Are ouf
kisss to be afflicted with it every year
4 Aaonifhing as the faG may appear, there is
kot hillory Of the plague IN exitauce. OF the
FheR awful calamity that befals the human
ltace calamity .! which probably more per
pbas have periihed, iince the Griffin era, than
here are now on the globe, no regular account
Las ever been written !; and fome of the mon
important phenomena of epidemic and peRil-n-
shAl dif-ales, are not known even to the mot
Eminent medical men in Europe. For want Of
httending To thele phenomena, even Mead and
"a Collen embraced the mott egregious errors re-
beding The caules of peitilen.ial 6ileafes, and
kn thofe errors have been built fyitems of regu.
biions, and laws of quarantine, for preferving
public health, that arc almoR entirely ufelefs and
h many aat~s and kingdoms, inhuman and bar
barous.
d Il has fallen to my lot to write brief &C
lkount of pe9ilential diieafes, from fuch materi-
as as can be found in this couRtry /; and TO
ldcover a number of important principles re-
fptaing the origin and Progrels Of epidemics.-
TO latisiy my fellow citizens who are involved
in diarefs, and feeking for confelation, as to
fme of their anxious enqireries, here offer TO
hem few obfervations, which arc tho rsfuts Of
nY inveaigation.
ssts where they ewG. A few doubtful cafes on
II ifnall fcale may be exceptions bot have de-
tnonfrative evidence that mott dileafes ola con-
1fagious nature are the fruit Of the foil ia which
'khsy are found. The means prevention there
lore are not to be found in Quarantine
Y Laws.
II 2, PeAiental epidemics are fregya|50e in their
snaligni;T, and feveral Of them ulaily follow in
ferries or order-luch as catarrh or influenza,
neatsls, anginas, or dilorders of the throat,
bpotted fever, yellow fever or plague. The
FEellow fever or plague never appears as far as
il can dilcover, without iome one or all Of the
abth-r dileafes for prccurlors. Something ike
ne order Of the inAuenza, meafes and icarlet
lever, in thefe flates, from 1886 rol7o5, is al
ways obfervable before all the plaques that have
iofeGcd The old world.
i Z. In addition TO MALIGNANT difsafes, as the
kyfertary and violent bilious rcrnttents, from
sbna'ih etauvia, which may be local, and occa
ned by peculiar feafons, there are certain pc
b:cds, when peffilential ddeafes. invade whole
quarters Of the g'obc. nearly at the fame time,
Rpd lometmes both hemdpheres. "A remarka-
II g inHance ofihis happened from i75o to I76S,
.fFhen Egypr, Syria, all Europe and America.
kSpsrience1 great iacreafe of mortality. Two
20 three inlanees have occurred fince but the
fPi nic. were lefs fitd.
q 4 The duration Of thefe peli!ential periods
Il various, from five to ten, fifteen and even
twenty years Intervals Of health are alto Of
'fery various duration. The bills of mortality
m LoDdon from 1918 10 I74z, we're on an a.
4Eerage more than twenty per cent higher than
Eney have ever been fnce owing to a contia-
ne fsrics Of mortal epidemics. In America,
'lFo tprmidable pellential diieae appeared from
F767 to i79t, period Of twenty-uiue years
IT unuia'ly long period Of health. The dyfn
'aiy ct 1875 and was the mott deflusive DIFF
Ke7ie cxAericrced in that long interval--Thc
I'eaFiet ievsr fPread inI7S5 and 8, but was light
~ than ulal.-From 1891 70 the pref-nt time,
We have lelt ievere GrLnelc ana hn,.- lnr,r His