The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-24
EpocHs OF PEsT1LENcE.
A Compilation of Ihe Great Epidemics
from EARLY Ages 10 the Present Day.

From the st. LOUIS Globe Democrat
Death of first born, Egypt, B. G. 149l,
declared by rabbi to be of cholera.
In B. c. S27 an epidemic of leprosy in
western China destroyed thousands.
B. G. 534, terrible plague at Carthage.
Children sacrificed to appease the gods.
Dreadful plague in Rome, B. c. 453;
200 900 died in Italy.
Athenian plague graphically described
by Thucydides, B. C. 43O.
B. c. 429, Athenian plague spread to
all parts of the world.
Hippocrates, B. G. 400, described Ash
attic cholera, course and symptoms.
Great plague in Greece, Egypt and
Syria, 1000 died daily, B. c. 1877.
B. C. 172, strange pestilence in Chinese
Tartary; 6QQ,g09 deaths.
In Chinese pestilence, B. c. 1T2, the
members dropped off before death.
b. G. ~, Black Tongue in India. Ton
que black and so swollen as to protrude,
Areteus of Cappadoeia, A. D. 80, gave
correct diagnosis Of cholera symptoms.
A. D. 81, a mysterious pestilence in
Damascus, men became blind before death.
A. d. II, pestilence in Judea from
stencil of dead bodies in Jerusalem.
A. d. IS, plague in Rome; 10000
deaths in one day.
Awful plague at Rome, A. D. so; l0,-
900 persons perished every day.
Galen, in A. D. 131, described visit of
cholera to Italy in that year.
Falling sickness throughout the Roman
empire in A. D. 1G7.
In A. D. 169 pestilence resembling
cholera devastated the Roman empire,
In A. D. 189 fever in France and Spain
destroyed one-half the population.
In A. D. 1870 plague prevailed over the
Roman empire; many towns depopulated.
Orabasius of Pergamus described a
cholera pestilence in A. D. 230.
In A. d. $50, 5000 persons died daily
at Rome. Total deaths, 100000.
A. D. 252, great pestilence throughout
the Roman empire; 100000 died.
In A. d. 427, mysterious pestilence in
Arabia; mems eyes dropped out,
In A. D, 43O, dreadful plague In Bri-
tain; the living could not bury the dead
Alexander Of Tralies. A. D. 525, men,
toned a visit of cholera to Greece in 52l.
A long continued plague in Europe,
Asia and Africa in A. d. 55S.
In A. d. 500 small pox prevailed in
Arabia and the East. Great mortality.
Terrible pestilence at Constantinople in
TAG; 100000 perished.
First general plague in the world took
place A. D. 767.
In Chichester, England, 772, "sore
throat" carried off 1000 people.
About $40 small pox spread all over
Europe and north Africa.
In 954 'sswollen throat" plague destroy
ed 10000 lives.
Plague broke out in London in 962;
0,000 persons died.
@Black mouth" in London in 1894; one
third the population died
Famine and plague in ireland in 1895;
one-half the population destroyed
Plague in London, I'LL; men, cattle,
fowls, and dogs died with same symptoms.
1872 Henry ii, forced to evacuate
Ireland on account Of plague.
In 1877 small pox was general in Eu-
rope, brought from East by crusaders.
In the small pox pestiience of 1857
over 100000 died.
In 1904 ireland was almost depopulated
by famine and pestilence
The "Blaek Death" appeared in Italy
in 1910. Spread all over Europe.
In l34S Europe again scourged. The
Florentine plague, described by RocCaccio
In l349 Britain and ireland visited by
black death: 900 deaths daily in London.