| Show TUB THE BLACK PLAGUE an awful pestilence threatening the whole earth CERTAIN DEATH AND NO CURE CUR victims of the scourge dains by the hundreds in china history of the tha disease dispatches from iron hong n kong o 0 show that the black plague is is rapidly spreading deat deaths hs by the hundred are reported daily the tha plague cannot be checked by treatment and may reach around tho the earth before it wears out A world dispatch from washington says that the records of the state department part ment mal malc c it evident that the singular plague china is is the black death or plague which devastated london in 1665 it has its origin 0 in cunnan a chinese province where it is endemic the catholic missionaries there hold that it is a pestilential emanation from the ground round As it slowly rises all animals animal are arc drowned so to speak in its poisonous flood the smaller creatures first and man tallest of all last its approach often may be foretold from the extraordinary movements of rats which leave their holes and run about the floors without a trace of their accustomed timidity springing continual continually lp upa upward ard is as if trying to jump out of something the rats fall dead the poultry pigs goats ponies and oxen successively in man its approach is indicated by y minute red pustules pus tules general machek arin vi it sl V butof 6 il a U in in P rh othar c r g w annulet ate a 0 e WWI plenty of vust pustules pus tules ules appe appear ar the case is is rl not ot considered so desperate as aa when they are few the sufferer is soon seized with extreme weakness followed in a few hours by agonis agoni inz ing palus in in every part of the body delirium shortly ensues and in nine cases out of ten the result is fatal it often happens that the patient suddenly recovers to all appearances pe pc arances and leaves his bed but in in such cases ole termination is always collapse and death As soon as a case appears the chinese desert the addicted leaving him in a room with a jug of water avater peering in the window at d intervals and prodding the victim with a long 0 pole to ascertain if life is extinct in the country the corpses corpse s are not buried but laid out to decay ca Y i in n the sun suit the air for miles around the disease is known in under the name babonis fever in loas siam in burmah and in Quey cho china where it has prevailed for years never before however has it made its way to canton and to iron giong kong 0 whence it may spread over the earth one reason for attributing its ita origin C to miasmatic influences Cs is that it always appears upon the planting of lice in may and junti it penetrates pene by caravans and travelers to tile the uplands and becomes more severe by fall sometimes it passes over certain communities muni ties in its line of progress only to return later on or the next year whenever it appears the I 1 cople desert their homes and crops and fleo flee to tents in t the lie hills bills in ill dolne aonie provinces the i population opu lation is de and whole families di disy appear dr J V F payne c in the pandia britannica britann ica says that the plague is 0 1 specific febrile discar di scab transmissible from sick to healthy persons accompanied by glandular swellings and soi sometimes carben cles in the minor form swellings of glands occur in the armpits groin neck and other parts which suppurate the severe plague begins begins 7 with ague the patient becomes distracted distract ed and staggers about the temperature rises to and degrees decrees b fahrenheit gl glandular glandil andul ar sw swellings carbuncles carbuncled carb uncles and hemorrhage spots appear in all plague epidemics cases occur in which death sets in within twenty four hours tile tho nature of the soil roil has little influence on oil plague but a moderately high is favorable the disease is 19 unknown III in the tropics in northern countries the disease is is generally checked by the cold weather cr isad bad sanitation ni tation is favorable to plague no special line of treatment has proved efficacious ill iii checking it hut but by bv hygienic measures a locality AV calf can ile be made unsuitable for the fill spread of plague in the middle ages E europe drope was frequently visited by plague which was called fit the black death tho the great plague of london in 1665 from which nearly seventy thousand people died out of a population of about half a million was not nn all isolated phenomenon but was preceded by bv a series of smaller epidemics ies the ilic last of which occurred in in in amsterdam when people died the disease has always shown a tendency to spread but by a law riot not vet understood each epidemic is is li liable able to a spontaneous and sudden ell decline in III tile the eighteenth century the plague was very prevalent in 1 europe and visited constantinople austria poland russia geri germany n a I 1 ay iy italy and france in III ISM europe was panic stricken because bec uise the plague 0 had appeared opp eared in noja boja on the eastern coast of italy this was its last appearance in in that country tile the epidemics in egypt between 1833 and 1845 are very important because the disease was then almost for the first milre scientifically studied by skilled physicians chiefly french it was found to bo be less contagious 1 than reported thelast the last outbreak nf f plague 0 in europe was in 1878 9 on 01 11 the banks of the volga it was very virulent and at out of a population of 1700 there were attacked and 0 ga died the epidemic probably took its rise in astrakhan in ia 1877 and was riot not brought from by cossacks after the war as was popularly BIT supposed but the conditions under which miasmatic forms of plague are arc spread are arc as yet unknown plague has been observed in china since 1861 in cunnan and at Pac Pack khol liol a port in the tonquin gulf since 1882 where where it is said to have prevailed for I 1 at least fifteen yea years rs in cunnan it is endemic and at makhol it occurs nearly every year I 1 |
