Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1837-08-22
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THE BLACK DEATH.


There 10 paper in late number Of the Elec,ic
Medical Journal, upon that hornd disease--an ep
idemc tia, 9erysded Eorope, ASIA aud Africa, III
the fourteenth century and spread desolation aud
death wherever II made ns appearance.
Some idea may be formed If the vrulence Of
this pestilence from the high rate Of mortality ndu.
ccd thus Of Caro- from 10 to 10 600 died daily,
beng as many, as IN modern umes, great plaques
have carried of during their whole ; ~ Chi.
more than 10 900 900 pershed India Was de-
populated Tartar. Mesopotamia, Syra, ana Ar
menla were covered with dead bodies IN tatsuia.
MA aud Cgssrea noue were left alive On the roads
in the cHmps-in the oarsvSnseres-curp a.
lone we're seen IN Gszs % 600 people and most
OF the animals we're destroyed Cyprus was de-
prived at all lis inhabitants. In the countries of
the Esst China excluded, itoeny hree millions eight
hundred and foriy thousand lndv idU1s tel victims
10 1t. IL swept over tie water we'll a. the land
ferning out the doomed the bosom OF every o.
eean, sea and river; SO that ships destitute Of
crews were drifting about a, .hc sport Of the eie.
meu,s spreading the seeds OF disease whithersoe,er
they chBneed TO drive ashore.
Equally ma gnant was II In Europe 60 900
dying VA Florence so 900 IN Pans 100 900 IN
Venice the zane 0Uubef IN London ia ABA
franciscan Friars IN Germany, &c. &c. More
than two hundred Thousand small tu~ aud villa
ges lost ese,y inhsbitant. In many parts OF France
not more than two out oil twenty escaped ~ one
Partisan Hospital alone the daily mofailiy amount
ed h. 500. Ia one burial ground Ia London, 80
600 eorpses were arranged IN layers and buried III
large pits. In Avignau. the Pope found it neces-
cay to the Rhonc. that bodies might he
thrown into II without delay. as the church yards
could not contain them.
Even Germsny, which was favored land, one
4 r.
dred and thirty four died italy lost half It's inhab-
i,anis ; some portions OF it still more; for exam
pie. Padua Corsica and Sardinia two thirds We
nice three ioufths. aud the surviving fourth fed
from the city, leaving It forlon and desolse AT
Florence prohibition was issued against publish
ing the deaths, and tolhDg the bells at funerals,
that The living might pot abandon themselves 10
despair. Even the frozen regions OF Iceland aud
Greenland did not escape the scoutge. 1t was at
this period tina, Denmark aud Norway were oblig-
ed to suspend their Northern voyages, and the
towering loebergs so accumulated on the Green
land Coast, az 10 prevent all subsequent commun-
oaion with the Colony there located: aud ono
moral from that time forward, has ever seen It's
inhabitants" Europe lost during the prevalence
Of this epidemic ftconfy fire millions o. inhabitants.
Merchants whose earnings and possessions were
uubounded coldiy aud willingly renowned their
inconsistencies and churches, aud laid them E, the
foot Of the alter but gold had no charms for the
monks, for it brought them death. they shut
their gstes yet s,ili il IVES cast 10 them the
convent walls. People would brook lnpedl>
ment 10 the last piobs WORK to which they were
driven By despair. Wbe0 The plague ceased. men
thought they aefe still wandering among the dead.
so appalling MAS the l,id aspect Of tho SURVIVORS,
IN consequence ofthe anxiety they had Undergone,
and the unavoidable Infection Of the air.
MANY DESTROYED themselves as # IN frenzy
funeral ceremonies were neglected morals every
where ds,eriorsted add The service OF God Mas
10 gres, measure laid ss.de the churches were
deserted the people renamed unnstrueted pa
rents neglected their children, aud children sban-
dnned Their parents The crops we're blasted the
beasts Of the fe.ds the bres Of the air, the ~
hsbilsnis Of the bHny deep, pcnshed by thousands
and tees Of thousands. Psrlismonis aud the |
Courts Of Justice we're closed every thing Stood
stall save the working Of mans evil passions bot !
these s,.il ~sfred VIOLENTLY. as msy be learned BY
reading Of the bloody qusrtel tbs, rsged belwcen
Edward III. aud Philip VI.
The nstprsi Phcnomcna that prevailed just pre- 4
Vions 10 the oct breaking q the pestileneo. aud 4
The moral Siiecis that were witnessed immediately
sabseqoen, thereto, acre Of araHgs ORDER. bot .
nc cannot, noH. eAeA open them. Ia the whole .
rage Of history. We kuos Dot " peuod that
oPeus % ~'ee and glorioess Geld for TIC Wnter
speaking, ssosnding a. It does wilb The grand. fbe
'sfnbls and tie sublime. /