Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-08-02
THE EPlDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Translated from The German of. f. c.
Hecher. IL. D

Hccker, III. d.
The last named is Il work Of extreme
interest, not only 10 the pro-, ss!onal Clan,
but to the general reader; acq iMiag him
with the history of some Of the most sIngu.
lar and fatal maladi's with which mank!ad
was ever afflicted; ds'as"s in comparison
with the NOR ally OF; which, the most fatal
and wide spreading disorders OF our own
time, as terrible us some OF them seem,
shrink into insigniicance and un'mpor-
tance.
The frs. of these sranse disorders here
treated of, and which is to be concluded
in The mex number. is the BlacI: DEATH Of
the Fourteenth Centaary-an epidemic lhal
pervaCicd Europc, ASIA and Africa, and
spread dcsou,ion aad death wherever i,
m de its appearance. S me id "a may be
formed Of the virulcnce of this p"s.ilencc,
from the high rate Of tie mortality that it
Induced. Us t Clrc, from 10 TO $1,000
died daily, beng us many as, in modern
l,nes, great plaques have carried off du'.1g
the. whoic course. In China more than
100, 00o perished; India was depopuiaed
T~rl:ry, Mcsopelonia, Syria, and Armenia
.,-~a .'cy..rel Wi h dead bodies; in Cara
G,,.a.;. ..n:Ca 'sarea none were 1T alive,
on a.. o..;5, in The camps, in tie carnvan-
...."S, Cgr.,S.. alol, were sen; III GAIA
i3,vv3 a.,.a, and most OF Tire animals,
~. u"sgroyes;; Cyprus was deprived of all
I IS =. tau ants. la the countries OF the
East China excluded twenty three millions,
eight huadred and forty thousand individu-
a!s. fill vIc.jms 10 it. 1t swept over the
wa,er IS well as the land, ierrcng out toe
doomed, on the bosom O! every ocean, sea,
and river; so that ships, destitute OF crews,
were drifting about at the sport Of the cle-
melits. spreading the seeds Of disease whlth-
ersoever taey CHANGED to drive ashore.
Equally malignant was i: in Europe; 60.
900 ying in Florence; $1,000 in Pors 100
600 in Venice; The same number IN Lon.
don; l24,434 franciscan Fr.ars III Garhla.
nv, &c. &c. More tlan two hundred
..,pnsand snail towns and villages lost,
...... ....,l,ca'. IA .I"y -: F,aucc |
not more than two oui Of twenty escaped.
In one Partisan Hospital alone the daily
morality amounted to 500. In one burial
srounds in London, 50, 900 corpses, were
arranged in layers and buried IN large pits,
In Avtgnon, the pope found it necessary to
consecra,e the Rnone, that bodies Iaght be
thrown into It without delay, as the church
wards could not contain them.
Even in Germany, which was ievoTed
land, ole million two hundred tojy four
thousand four hundred and thtrty.l0ur died
Italy lost halfns inhabi'ans some portions
oFit still more; for example Padua' Corsica |
and Sardiu two thirds; Venice three tortAs !
and the surviving fourth fled from the city !
having fororn and desoia:c. At Floranrc |
a prohibition was issued agaiast publishing !
deaths, and tolIing the bells a; funerals, that |
the living might not abandon tie nselves |
10 dessar, Even the frozan regions of Ice.
lind and Greenland did moi escape the
scourgc. 1t was a this pe.pd that Den.
mark and Norway were obliged TO suspend
their Northern voyages, and towering ice
beres so accumulated on the Greenland
Coas:, as to prtv vcnt all subsequent conmu:
nication with tbe colony there locacd: and
soo morlai -.>n that time forward has ever
seen i,s inhabitants" Europe lost during
me pravalencc OF this c?i2e@lic twenty-five
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