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Anciont Plaques.

Anciont Plaques.
The great plague Of London in 1865
forms climax in tho history Of diseases.
1t seemed to spend It's fury in ono fierce
effort. 1t was to come no more. Cen
turics have passed, and still tho fatal
soourgo TINT ragged without lin,t,
without resistance, almost to the de-
struction Of the population of vast CAPT
tai, has wholly vanished before some
insorutable law, some change OF habiis.
improvement in morals and manners.
Often before 1865 it had prevailed in
London and England amo,t with oriental
severity, aud had slowly made its way over
Western Europe, devouring generation in
Its passage. 1t began usually in Egypt aud
Syria, reached Cons'antiuopc, oycrrau The
continent, dcsolatcd Amsterdam aud Paris,
covered Englaud with dismay. 1t is curious
to notice how all these violent aud oa,h-
somo diseases are born and nourishcd in
the East, ride slowly Westward decimate,
destroy, are the poisonous gifts of decay
ing civilization. The black death p 1913
is the most fearful of ALL 1t came from
tho East over medieval Europe, slayip.
whole cities full Of people, laying waste aud
silent the open country knocking at the
cottage and the pliaco gate. The human
race, in the words Of ;ho chroniclcr, seemed
about to disappear; cities as large as New
Orleans were nearly deserted; districts Of
fertile country fairer than Mississippi were
tcnanted once more by wild beasts. Half
tho people of Europe, it was estimated.
died. IL was as if two hundred thousand
of the Inhabitants Of Boston had pcrishcd
in fey months, half million ip New
York. We have nothing in modern times
to approach tho violence Of thcsc ancient
plaques; men lave multiplied, disease di-
minishes. Il is not difficult to fancy the
horror that settled upon the survivors, the
terrors oe the lonely ci'ics, the torsakcn
streets, the dcpopula,rd, lossoac country;
the sudden outbreaks Of foico madness
that often followed; the nageIlants whi,c
pcnitents, contrition, despair; or the wild
revelry that sometimes sprung up in the
midst, the shout Of riotous mcrrimcpt ,nipu.
ling with groans and tears
1t Was plague Of this kind that camo
upon London ip lGG3, SO fearful that il
could only seem Judgment from above
The hot weather OF July reused it to yiru.-
lcncc; in August it was fearful; in Scptem.
ber tho horrors told of it surpass belief. T.
first appeared with tunor on the breast
or under the arm, hard, painful horrible
tho plague spot. The physicians when
they saw the fearful omen would cry, Cliff
up yonr eyes to God!' In few hours it
was fatal. Sometimes the patient sank
under raging fever, headache; sometimes
faded away in swift decline, almost pain
lees; some seemed to die Of fright; some
hanged themselves to escape it; some wcrc
seized in the streets, and died before thew
could reach their own doors. In Scptem.
Der 5000 persons dicl weekly, and 60 900,
1t was believed, we're Infected
Whole streets Of houses were shnt IN
and abandoned; men fed from each other
when thoy met; the money paid TO tho
butcher or baker was fumigatcd; thieves
wandered through tho deserted shops and
dwellings, and sometimes died there
Fearful tales were told of nurses who smoth
cred and robbed their patients; of deeds of
horror that were never punished; of the
infected who ran shricking through tho
streets, and fell dead; of homes where olI
died together. August, September, passed
on with ever growing horrors; in Noyem-
Dor the colder weather seemed to check the
disease, and many who onmc back too hast
lily were infected and died. At last. in
December, tho great dciverancc came; the
pestilence ceased.
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