, 1879-03-29
THE ASIATIC. PLAGUE.

IUE ASlAllV. IIAtU L.
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Bono Faots with Respect to 1ts Entnso md
History, with Ancctiotes Drawn from the
Writings of Observers.
"'' '" s,,s fu Io5s Ersntno f,..
r1a ros,,toncc ti,nt hua rcrontiv -ooc,1 In
r,..or, Emronc /. mt rot ,v,ollv rxttnr1,shril.
mr. ir,,ccd I,:clv TO hc tor a consfdcrnhl. time.
w., ~ aIs, % ~, ~ atsas.,. r"n,.t,, ill., ,t,
yellow fever. eomnaratlsetS tnactitc a'tslhs 'hc
winter mud to renew its power witt, the return.
,nu warmth a. III tho caso Of The great plague iu
,1n,,on In 1Irs THAT rn,e,nir ,,cro,, +, d..
cefnber of Tie previous fenF, a'nftNlhl the cotl'
munity; hut after that, Boys Defoc tn his
"Jour,1al," "mnrc easy aga!n for about bix
wcrEa. :, or ,,nttt t,,c nIitlte of February.
~ ..as,,. n,.s,,., o,,,1or,,o ia ,,,o,h,,a,v
lhc pscse.'I Auss'u" ep'oe"',e 70 u""oAoleniS u.
the same thing That has been known from tic
ear3icst times in ncarly cyery part Of AaIa a,,l
Eurono. md uodcr many names, The disease
e,f !, M nc,intto tI,,,p: Il in IA ,ndyf,,1al IN
tsel. Is NJ nusn,'i'o tn ~ 70 20 ..u'oua' ~. III
Its character, NIL "a well understood III It's gen"
Gral features, as almost any other Of the Rrcat
class of infectious tlscasea to which II belougs.
Ono suf,lccutly important question ab.,ut Il,
o"o Su'sS 49,. =. :. w :. .,.,s. h. aaa,s.a, ~ ~,
Namely no" u cure IL " must "o aui'ttleu "e
do not understand. NOR can We sct pronounce
,lpon It's essential nature with confidence. But
Of tts sources It's ways Of spreading, It's behay-
ttc,for rarea r,nasc. nj ,ndt,duats. n, n,arn in
s"foro,,nn ~ ,th.r ,,roctioua 1I.caeos ~ NJ,
,Sna ,,'srts ~ tvn Euntz ,,ci' nrn toT or NJ.
insse pu.s''' W. "''" '''0>'' '@'" WI
IN voricns uor,,a NJ rcfcrcucc I find ,bc t,tcs
=, nc1piv 1pI0 "o'AS % ~. '''0 ''e '''e'
u osuty -
FIVE nUNnHHn BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
about tic plague. First there arc long ne
counts In medieval Latin; then come old
ltalIan mil French chrou!clers; then the Ger
n,aps find roteu: md lustly tic English,
especially after their grrat cp1lcm!c Of iaiG;5,
which destroyed probably 103. .00u people in Lon
IN imnElnary hut not nntr,,stworthy description.
''Ee.ween 1850 and 1885," says DR.. 1Iebenlun,
"thc plng1,e spread Itself succcsslycly oycr A.
most all the habtahte world. In the fourteenth,
passed ton years without a considerable plague.
Maitland In Ills History OF London declares
That for flyo.unl.twenty yenrs before the fire Ut
1CGo tho city had never baen clear from the
dsease @ Sc. wers reportei ia London, t rsnl nun.
brr bcIng In a,l probability muell greater than
this. "ln September lGtja," Iiehcslcn contln-
ucs, uhapprnui the memorable l!rc OF London.
consumed everything fru,p tbs Tower to Teln-
pIo Bar, II md Tie year foltowing there wcre but
thirty five deaths from nlngue IL the city. IL.
day 1t Is the turn Of Russinn writer's to contrib
nte To tIe snD1ee.; NeateIn Eu9opc uas long
been exempt from tue scoufgc.
r
region does 1t diHusse ltsclff That Is ques-
tion which has been
LusTILT COETRovERTED.
!. Eaeh cot,ntry.u snys Or. 1Ieber1cn. q Ia I'm.
| willing to ncknuwlcJgo hcrself thr ,1arent nf
surh NJ, nf1io,is oifanrinr. Frnm thfs nart of
EI,ronu IEnrinnti we ira taught to fnot, tn
| Tnrtev ftr i'm to,,re6 Sof thn cv,i ino,,re
there. aml YOU aro referred cfthtr 10 snms
yag,,e rctd,rt fron, lie nnfis about tic Casoian
sen. ar more co,1,,nonty to Epynts Thu FrTvt,.
! uons ~ ~ % ti'a, otIar ,;, ,yI1f III, ro .iIs,,
; rrccfye II so,nctncs frn Tnr>cy bt 2ou us,tatiy
rom f,vha or EthInnlaNtn short' fran nIaccs
ss"., ;"ra T. nntn1s. r., satct s, ,',,,.
1rIous renort Vlllan, wbn was "t .nmn nains I
~ i"rast;.ntn ,,a nr;"i,, ~ r.o., ,t' ~ H..
r,s..,,. aont,e. .vo - r.iorn. ~ ~ - wy ~
Chinu a,i was toj that Il % "as ,icro oecasloI, @ ~
~ sno viti' M " GrraI ,anr, na y y !ve e
,s;.. "..m ~ ,.n'i
e ,.i.n -" ~, ,,1r,si ,,ai'!."tfa' Ho"Ga ~
~ m'' ,yi,,, .u tbt,.a tia ra,,nn ,oa ~ @ H.
uiuGue' " VIII Ltuss " .ao ae.aM ieses. ne
nasas , a!"n3s otEtn.es ~ tne tc;npGtte sols'
Ill., n .s tathsr nsMHs usi,.ases III ulu soIE'n:
ina Gpdto tue .1s. saseln eoasts W
NV MSu!ts!Eu1neaai 1 ~ @nuse ttat Htouuen M,!.l
| MtnssHtuAt2 tl'o p'aeuG' naunct}; E!stk' o5F'n'