The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-30
WE1LsBURG.
WELLsRuRG, December 9S

" ELLahShNt NceShASSA ~S'
Editors fntsllIseueer.
l recently came into possession OF a
volume bearing the following title IAN
Inquiry into the Nature and Treatment OF
the Prevailing Epidemic, called Spotted
Fever, &C., &c. In three parts. By Job
Wilson, NJ. D., Boston: Published and
sold by Bradford 4 Read, No. IS Cornhil.
1876 George Housh, Printer, Concord,
New Hampshire"
Part first treats "ofthe climate and disea-
SOS Of these States since their first settle
ment in 1920 to 1906. Under this head
the first paragraph states: "May 81, 1907.
The Plymouth company send two ships
with. one hundred men, George Popham,
President, and Capt. Rawling Gilbert, Ad.
miral, TO Sagadahock, North Virginia"
"December is. The two ships sail from
saeadahock, with all their company, ex-
cept forty-fye." "' :,
IA. b. i6Os.-This winter extremely cold,
both in Europe and North America. This
spring the colony brake up and return to
England. They brand the country ex-
ceedingly cold, and not habitable by En-
plishmeri: and the adventures give over
their design o. transmitting inhabitants to
America. Nodeath happens during their
stay on tho continent, except that OF their
President, Mr.. Popham."
IA. D. 16l6.-fhis winter plague Is
said to have destroyed many OF the ma
tives OF New England"
IA. D. 16l7.-This winter, and spring
ensuing, q great plague beialls the natives,
which wastes them exceedingly; and so
many thousands OF them die, that the liv-
ing are not able to bury the dead, whose
skulls and bones laid on the ground at the
places OF their habitations, for several years
after. The Penobscots in the east and the
Narragansets in the west are said to have
escaped this plague"
"a. D., 1920, Nov. 9th.-The first set
tiers Of New England arrived at Cape
ION the l3th.-The water being shallow,
they are forced 10 leave their vessel, and
wade bow-shot or two, before they can
reach land. The weather being cold and
freezing, they are seized with grevious
coughs and colds, which finally caused the
death Of many among them
We shall leave this interesting diary for
the time being. -,
One other article is all that our time will
allow US TO extract, and that is as follows:
Account OF the influenza, as itappeared
In Wheeling, State OF Virginia. in the year
1907. By Dir. Gideon G. Forsyth. See
N. Y. Med. Repos. Vol. VI. Hex. 9 p. $50.
"There Is perhaps no river IN the United
States 80 subject tosudden falling and ris-
ing OF it's waters as the Ohio, and the rivers
which run into It. Sometimes II can be
forded with ease; and again II will admit
Of large vessels to pass Il with safety. l
have observed, that its sudden rise is gen.
orally attended with affections OF the
lungs. In my note book for May Goth,
1907, l find the following remark: For
several weeks past the influenza has pre-
vailed in this and ad iacent counties,suppos.
ed to becaused by the sudden melting OF
the snow on the mountains, which produc-
ed very great rise in the waters in the
Ohio, the air very damp, and cold wind
north and northwest. Its symptoms were
cold shivering, pain in the head, generally
across the eyes, full pulse, sore throat an
ichorous discharge from the nose and eyes,
cough and pain in the limbs. The influen.
"a appeared general in this country twice
- -''' "' G. BIC.