The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-02
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To be concluded
1872
CHOLERA MoRBUs. The Ednburg Oh !
server has the following article on the dis I
ease of which such frightful accounts have
been brought from Russia
That disease, called cholera, which has !
long heen an epidemic in Asia, and fire. !
qnently desolated seine ofthe finest provin- !
ces of India and of Persia, is now advancing
with fearful rapidity through the heart of
European Russia, was, like the greater part
of the contagious diseases which have at diff !
ferent times desolated Europe. generated in
the east, and first developed itself in its
present appearance in a remote corner of
Cochin China. For many years its violence
was confined to that country and to the in
terror Of China; but it gradually spread it
self over Hindostan and Persia, and after
destroying unknown millions in Its progress,
it has now, in all probability, been hequesth-
ed by Persia to the Russian conquereTs of
Tiberan. How far its viruience may be
mitigated by European skill or dssipated
by the approach Of winter, or what effect
the contagiOn may have on the constitution
Of men living in different state of society
and suhsistng on a much richer kind of
nutriment, are questions at this moment of
no ordinary interest; and which we would
fain hope, from the caution adopted by the
authorities, are not likely soon to he put to
the test. We do know, however, that med
ical men Of our Indian armies have not been
very successful in their practice on cholera;
and that the disease, undated, it appears,
in violence, is passing through some OF the
coolest provinces of RUSSIA. 1t is curious
and somewhat omnoHs circumstance, that
most of the great plSgues which depopula-
ted Enro2e took their rise in remote corners
of Asia, and proceeded to the west through
Russia, until their fury has been arrested
at the southern extremity of Europe. OF
such nature and origin was the frightfu
maiady which visited Asia and Europe dur
ing the mlddle of the fourteenth century. and
which is mentioned by the chronicles of the
period under the appalling appellation of the
Back Death Like the cholera of the pre-
sent day, it is said TO have first broken out in
China, where it destroyed about thirteen
millions of people. 1t then travelled, like it,
| through central Asia, and ragged in the vi
cinity otthe Caspian Sea and the Bosphorus.
II passed from thence to Armenia, Asia
Minor, Syria, Egypt and Greece. Gene
veSe vessels brought it 10 Italy where whole
cities were depopulated by its Violence
In LONDON alone, fifty thousand individuals
are stated to have been buried in one spot
and in Paris, so great was the devastation,
/ that the eXasperated mob demanded the
massacre Of all the Jews, who were accused
of poisoning the wells. From Germany the
disease passed into Scandinavia, and was
conveyed to Poskow and Novogorod, in
| Russia. In the former city Che same as
| Lord Heyteshury's Pewzka, in which the
cholera is now raging) it broke out in the
| spring, and continued to extend itself SO
terribly, that by the winter not one third Of
the inhabitants were left. The symptoms
Of the disease were tumors in the soft cavi-
ties OF the body, accompanied by splitting OF
blood, death taking place on the second or
third day. 1t is impossible, say the histori-
ans OF the time, to imngine the shocking
spectacle presented on the occasion-youths
f and old men, parents and children, were
LAID together in the same graves, numerous
: families disappearing on the same day.
Every priest found 1.-THE morning full thirty
; corpses lying in his church. and mass was
; read over the whole Mt once. But the
church yard soon lacked space, and new
, graves and holes were dug in the woods
N"tSl'C tHC Wy Walls. AT HrSJ cOVetOUs
5 people were found to wait on the diseased
but as soon as it became evident that the
property of the dead contained the poison
of disease, even the rich looked in vain for
, help-even the son fed from his father
Ahont the same time the pestilence ragged
, at Novogorod, Ginchow, and Bieloseek
where not an inhabitant was left. AT Mos
COW, the Gar, with two of his sons and his
brother, died at the same perioi; and that
city suffered as much as the country in GEN
eral. Two observations have been made on
this pestience by the historians of all coun-
tries. First, that more young people died Of
1t than old !; and second, that wherever it
ragged the human race multiplied after it in
an astonishing degree.
The New York Daily Advertiser of Fri
day contains the following extract fiom a
! letter recently received by gentleman in
that city from friend in EIsineur. The
letter was dated 25th November
1.-THE epidemic which has prevailed in
/ different parts of Russia still continues
and very alarming circumstance is, that
when its course is supposed to have been