The press of the times mentions as an assured fact, the westward movement of the Eastern pestilence, and a medical professor of the Syrian Protestant College of Beyroot, gives a detailed historic account and description of the plague in its various stages of attack and progress, in one of our leading religious weeklies.
This pestilence first made its appearance in Greece in the 9th century before the Christian era, since which time all the mighty learning of the East has been brought vainly to bear to discover its remedy and conquer its ravages.
Procopius declares that ten thousand persons died of it in a single day in Constantinople; Venice lost of her inhabitants one hundred thousand, London one hundred thousand, Vienna seventy thousand, Florence sixty thousand, and Paris fifty thousand during one of its visitations.
