La Grippe of 1562

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 129, 24 April 1890, Page 4

La Grippe of 1562

A valued 'cbr.i^^pnd'e^y^rjtes^r— - ; o -Ask one who has notyet been attacked what is" the^d'e'riviatibh~o*f the 'hafnie Lay •Grippe; 'He may' uKt know, ohi you r "may beVertain that he who has ex'« Tperienced the sensation knows full ■ W"]-;-;:.; 1 : i!;Tf;;JJJ y J.\y 3?or the infdrmafiph of those interested we publish the lollowing ex' | tract which . shows this disease is no . new -thing t-4- '-A id Chalmers, in his life of Mary Queen of Scots; relates that, this famous lady was laid up for a week with!-. an. -epidemic' influenza. A letter from one of her ''Goiirt *tO' T: Mr'* Secretary Oecil,; -dated 29th! , *Novemberi 1562;' says 1 :— * • May it please your H., itrimediately oipon the Klueene's" 'arrival.' -here ; she fell acquayuted with a* new disease" that is common in -this towne, .called here the new acqiiayntame, which passed, also through the whole Dour ite, neither sparing 'iorde, ladie,J q^ da J ihb^ysell, "nor so mU_h~'_s" either Frenche'^f -Englishe. It is , a. Payne in th^ heads •that have it, and, v af so reness in, their *Btoinac£es, , with a great caughe ; it , wim.some longer, with •other shorter time J&yndeth as it a pte 'bodies for the nature of the disease. -,« The ' Queen, kepte heri bedde s__ •dayes. , There was vno appearance ;of *danger;. nor maynie that die of the "disease, excepte four olde folkes." , • My If. Murraye is now presentlye in it, the^bf had it; and^l am^asbained to saye that I ihave bene^fr^e, of. it, seeinge it seek<ethe acquaintance, at all handes. By treason of these, occasions I have not -i_een hei. Gi since she came* to tovvue . ' nt.cs.btilf.ii. ;-...-.;. -»,■ :■ yy-.