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lating plague prevailed. Thucydides
describes a devastating plague that
originated in Athens 1870 b. c., and
spread thence to Egypt and Ethiopia.
reversing the usual order of march.
Another plague ragged in the Greek
islands, Egypt and Syria in 1877 b. g.,
and destroyed 1000 persons a day.
AS we advance along the centuries of
the Christian era we find numerous
records of plaques and pestilence. AT
Rome in so there was ''most awful
plaques" 10000 persons persisted every
day. Similar epidemics ravaged the.
empire in the years 1877, 1863 and 1879.
From 250 to 260 there were awful pes
tilences. For some time 5000 persons
died daily in Rome alone, and whole
towns in the empire were depopulated.
In Britain in 430 a plagne swept away
such maltitudes that ''the living were
hardly sufficient to bury the dead" A
long-continued and dreadful plague be-
gan in Europe in $50, and subsequently
extended all over Asia and what was
then known of Africa. During the
years 1863 Constantinople lost 200,0
of its population, and the pestilence
devastated Calabria, Sicily and Greece,
At Chichester, England, in 772, $4,000
people died, and in 954 Scotland lost
$1,000 people. There was plague in
London in 962, and great mortality
from the same cause in 1924. Ireland
was sorely visited in 1895; in 1172,
when King Henry III. was forced to
leave the country; in 1904, when a pro-
digious number persisted and in 1889.
In I'LL the plague in London extended
to cattle, fowls and other domestic
animals.
The "black DEATH ravaged Italy in
1910, and the plague of 1889, general
in Europe, was one of the most men,
orable on record. Its effects in Flor
ence were described by Boccaccio in
what will live as part of immortal
literature. Britain and Ireland suf-
fered terribly, and in London alone 200
persons were buried daily in Charter
house yard. In London and Paris a
dreadful mortality prevailed in 1361-62,
in 1867 and 1869. In Ireland there was
pestilence in 1870, and still worse
one, called the fourth great plague, in
1888. In 1907 London lost $4,000 citi-
zens. Another pestilence, superinduced
by famine, visited Ireland in 1866, when
great numbers died, and Dublin was
wasted by plague in 1870. An "awful
pestileuce' ravaged Oxford in 1471,
and throughout England, in l47S, 3
plague destroyed more people than
the continual wars of the fifteen pre-
ceding years" The sweating sick
ness" was very fatal in London in 1885,
and in 1499-1500 the plague was so
dreadful that Henry VII. and his court
fled to Calais for safety. The sweating
sickness, which was fatal in three
hours, occurred in London in 1906 and
again in 1917. In most of the towns
half the people died, and Oxford was
depopulated. In 1922 thousands were
swept away in Limerick. The sweat
ing sickness revisited England in 1928
and again in 1851. In 1904, 30,578
people persisted of plague in London.
Constantinople again lost 100000 peo-
pie in 1911. In 1925 London lost 3d.
All inhabitants. In 1852 Lyons lost
10000. In 1856, 100000 people died at
Naples in six months. In 1864 Lon
dOn's great plague took off 6o,596 in
habitants; some say 100000. One of
the most awful plaques that ever ragged
prevailed in Syria in 1850. In 1873,
$4,000 inhabitants of Bossora, Persia,
died of plague. In 1892, 100000 per-
sons died of plague in Egypt. In Bar
barry 5000 persons died daily, and in
1899, $4,000 people persisted at Fee,
and epidemics called plaques ragged in
various parts of the East in 1900, 1910
and 1873; there were many deaths in
Bagdad in 1876. There was an cpl
demic fever of great fatality at Gibral-
tar in 1929
Cholera was described by Garcia del
Huento, physician of Goa, Portugal,
about 1860, though comparatively little
was known of it until the present CEN
tury. 1t became epidemic in Bengal in
1917, and gradually spread until it
reached Russia in 1880 and Germany in
1881, carrying off more than 100000
persons in the meantime. Asiatic
cholera first appeared in England at
Sunderland. October 26, 1881, and in
North America at Quebec, June 8, 1882,
and in New York, June %, 1882. 1t
revisited the United States in 1881,
slightly in 1S49, severely in 1866, and
again lightly in 1867. In 1889, 3d.
2y3 people died of 1t in England and
Wales, and i'm 1854 those countries lost
20,097 and Naples 10000 persons. In
1865, 10000 people died of cholera at
Constantinople. As will be seen, TIE
United States has been relatively free
from pestilence and plague, and in no
case has it suffered from epidemics in
digenous to its soil Yellow fever has
at times been terrible visitor, and its
awful effects in 1878 will not be forgot
ten. But in that case as in every pre-
vious one, the contagiOn was introduced
from the West Indies. At its worst,