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n r A pottloal oorrefpondsnt lendi the Fall Mall Gacttte • " Fragment on the Influenza," oonohed In language more olaailo than aome people might be die* poaed to use of that malady : Whan Influenza (maid obicene !) wai korn, On wme inolement, icy, Scythian morn. AH the Diseases came, a hideout train, Attended eaoh by many an aoheand pain, With various gift* to graoe the infant crone And make her powert malign ezoel their own. Th' lnoipient Measles (impi of evil fume) Come with theirfgifts and shiver'd m they oamet Behind them, bloodshot, sneezing, swel'n Catarrh, And all the demone of intestine war, Wincing Neuralgia next the nymph en. dowi With throbbing templet and with aohing brows: The Ferera brought their gifts from poiaonoue dene ; Dull Ague came from chill and reeking f em ; (She, while her helpleti viotim moans and mopee, Finohea hit bones and binds him round with ropes), Then bow'd Lnmbtgo and ferocious Gout, And all that hobbling and rbeumatio rout: All powers that the fog of London holds, And the whole wh.eyy tribe of ooughs and oolds. With these mlx'd powers endow'd (a*d more like these) What malady can match the new disease? In Russia first she tries her infant skill, Soon grows mature and issues forth to kill. With equal hand she strikes at men and beasts. Lords, ladies, oaptains, counsellors, and priests ; Jews, joints, and eyeballs, -all together ache: The tortur'd limbs like jelly shiver and shake: With one accord a hundred pains attaok "ionr eyes, nose, month, brains, ohest, feet, finger, back, And all diseases join one feeble frame to rack.
INFLUENZA.
