"In 1747, four battalions," of 715 men each, "at South Beveland and Walcheren, both in field and in quarters, were so very sickly, that, at the height of the epidemic, some of these corps had but one hundred men fit for duty; six-sevenths of their numbers were sick."

Mrs. Boyle had removed here from Baltimore, a few years before her own death, that she might be with her brother through his long and fatal illness; and, finding her health improved by change of air, had occupied his house ever since, until one of those typhoid fevers that infest such river-gorges at certain seasons of the year entered the village about the mills, when, in visiting the sick, she took the epidemic herself and died.

The epidemic carried off not merely his two sonsthe only two legitimate, Xanthippus and Paralusbut also his sister, several other relatives, and his best and most useful political friends.

The Martialists consider that to this careful purification of their water they owe in great measure their exemption from the epidemic diseases which were formerly not infrequent.

But the contrary is the case: even the epidemic of crime foreshadowed by Mrs. Pankhurst could not appreciably delay woman suffrage.

In the society of the future we shall undertake this work of social hygiene, and thereby we shall remove the epidemic forms of criminality.

"In consequence of the epidemic at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in the spring of this year, it has been decided to reduce the number of cadets at the College from 500 to 300.

Fever broke out amongst them, and it was some months before the epidemic was stayed with the primitive medical skill at their command.

Her big body, better fed, more fleshly than others, offered a greater target to the attacks of the epidemic.

"How did it happen?" "He went over on one of the 'flu ships,' and when the epidemic began to mow 'em down there was a kind of panic.

"Whilst many were dying around him, his health continued to improve; so that with the disappearance of the epidemic he found himself sufficiently restored to venture, if Providence should open the door, to resume his ministerial work.

Let us look at another disease by the light of recent knowledge, viz., the epidemic influenza, concerning which I remember hearing much talk, as a child, in 1847-48.

Orleans is generally crowded with strangers, who are most susceptible to the epidemic; and it is decidedly the interest of persons keeping hotels and boarding-houses that such guests should give up the ghost, for in that case their loose cash falls into the hands of the proprietor.

He would on no account at this time leave his post, nor omit his periodical inspections along the line of the road, where the epidemic was raging.

Altho only just recovered from his illness, and the epidemic still raging at Leyden, William would see at once his dear and valorous city.

The Capucins summoned their brethren from the other provinces, and the latter rushed to martyrdom with the alacrity of the ancient Christians; out of fifty- five the epidemic slew forty-three.

Scarcely was a thought given to those martyrs to devotion who had fallen during the epidemic; those who survived received no recompense; the Regent, alone, offered Monseigneur de Belzunce the bishopric of Laon, the premier ecclesiastical peerage in the kingdom; the saintly bishop preferred to remain in the midst of the flock for which he had battled against despair and death.

Alvez sincerely pitied his comrade, and he declared that the provinces of Western Africa had been, till that time, less badly treatedthat is to say, less visited; but the epidemic of travelers was beginning to spread.

The return of hot, damp weather again produced a slight recrudescence, and scattering cases continued to occur until March, when the epidemic of 1902-1904 ended in Manila.

At the end of the second week, beginning August 23, there had been one hundred thirty-seven cases, as compared with one hundred twenty-five for the same period during the epidemic of 1902-1904.

I had occasion to visit one of the northern provinces, where the epidemic was especially severe, in an effort to calm the panic-stricken populace.

A neighbor of Haught's had taken the trouble to ride up to inform us about the epidemic of influenza.

It was taken by the Duke of Cumberland four years later, but abandoned again on account of the epidemic that broke out among the English troops.

Such was the cardinal principle which governed in the merciless attempts to suppress the epidemic in spreading from the continent to England and Scotland, and at last to the Puritan colonies in America, where the last chapter of its history was written.

As I happily steered clear of Charybdis, he drifted into Scyllain other words, just as I recovered from my second attack of the tender passion, he caught the epidemic and fancied himself in love with the fair Marie.