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Domestic News
April 1, 1786
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
In Sharon, Connecticut, a severe throat disease is raging, affecting adults and infants, and has caused the deaths of several promising youths, as reported from Litchfield on March 14.
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LITCHFIELD (Connecticut) March 14.
A circumstance exceedingly regrettable, is the present rage of that dreadful malady the THROAT DISEASE, at Sharon, which, we are advised, attacks adult as well as infant persons, and has enrolled in the catalogue of fate, several very promising youths, who were just blossoming into life, and sporting in the sunshine of their infant years; giving full indulgence to the joys of fantastic imagination, without reflecting, that
"The spider's most attenuated thread,
Is cord—is cable, to man's tender tie on earthly bliss
It breaks at every breeze."
We wish the faculty would wreck their pericraniums, for a remedy against the fatal consequences of so alarming an evil.
A circumstance exceedingly regrettable, is the present rage of that dreadful malady the THROAT DISEASE, at Sharon, which, we are advised, attacks adult as well as infant persons, and has enrolled in the catalogue of fate, several very promising youths, who were just blossoming into life, and sporting in the sunshine of their infant years; giving full indulgence to the joys of fantastic imagination, without reflecting, that
"The spider's most attenuated thread,
Is cord—is cable, to man's tender tie on earthly bliss
It breaks at every breeze."
We wish the faculty would wreck their pericraniums, for a remedy against the fatal consequences of so alarming an evil.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Throat Disease
Sharon Outbreak
Youth Deaths
Connecticut Epidemic
Where did it happen?
Sharon
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Sharon
Event Date
March 14
Outcome
several very promising youths... enrolled in the catalogue of fate
Event Details
present rage of that dreadful malady the THROAT DISEASE, at Sharon, which... attacks adult as well as infant persons