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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 05, 1767
Page
2
A surgeon in Edinburgh outlines a COVID era of horse distemper style illness, identified as inflammation of the lungs called personaumony. He prescribes thinning thick blood by repeated bleedings, large fluid intakes, and nourishing mashes. Bloodletting continues for several days if coughing persists, with nitre and tartar emetic as remedies, plus careful dietary care and fresh air.
Dublin reports a Bill passed by the House of Commons to lay a four shilling tax in the pound on nonresidents outside the kingdom for defined civil and military employments and statuses while in attendance elsewhere. Edinburgh notes uprisings and military movements as Margals of Lothian’s Dragoons scatter between Leith and Canongate. A Stirling incident describes a robbery near the Bridge of Stirling where Robert Stewart lost fifty seven pounds to two armed men after a horse seizure and pistol threat.
In New Bath on December 3 Lord Mountstueart Lord Gomerston Sir Richard Acton Col and Mrs Campbell Col and Mrs Burrard Worcester notes a death in Worcester on December 4 Mr Robert Howorth who had long been sword-bearer died after an apoplectic fit A Leigh parish case recalls a coffin interment attempt interrupted by a person infected by an apparent epidemic doubts about death lingered during preparations
Shipping notices list numerous ships and captains arriving or sailing from London Jamaica Newfoundland Cadiz and Cork. Vessels include Royal Charlotte Industry Neptune Peace and Plenty Charlotte Charlotte Gaffney Amity Enterprise and Sea Nymph with crews and destinations such as Jamaica Cap Fear and Newfoundland. Port movements show outward-bound ships and packets from Deal Rotterdam and Waterford with various masters aboard.
Unclear sentence notes that yesterday the King was escorted by the Duke of Ancaster and the Earl of Coventry to the House of Lords. The fragment mentions royal attendance and peerage figures without further context or outcomes.
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