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Epidemic Influenza - About a fortnight ago, a severe form of catarrhal epidemic began to shew itself in London, and has since become extremly prevalent.  It usually commences suddenly with headache and feelings of general discomfort, attended or soon followed by cough, hoarseness, or loss of voice - oppression, and sometimes severe pain in the chest - tenderness about the ribs, and sense of having been bruised about the limbs and muscles.  For twenty-four or forty-eight hours the constitutional disturbance is sometimes very great - with considerable anxiety, and turbulence of the circulation; put after this time the urgency of the symptoms abate, leaving, however, in some cases, extreme languor, which only slowly subsides.  The disease, so far as we have seen, does not particularly affect those who are subject to common catarrh; many certainly have it who ware not liable to "catch cold."  With respect to treatment, the patients do not require, nor bear, the depleting means which the severity of the symptoms under other circumstance would warrant.  We presume that it is to e looked upon as the epidemic influenza which has lately prevailed on the eastern parts of Europe, and that it is travelling, like many of its predecessors to the west. - Medical Gazette - The epidemic is a present very prevalent amongst all classes, and particularly in the Metropolis.  Mr. Joseph Hune, Lord Althorp, Sir Jas. Graham, Mr O'Connell and several others, have during the last week been very seriously indisposed.

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Extraordinary Coincidence


The wife of Mr. Wm. Mummery, poulerer, Margate, has brought him not less than six children within a period of seven months!!
On the 23rd Aug. last, Mrs. Mummery was onfined with twins; and on the 21st March instant, she presented her husband with four more children; recently the great lioness in Wombwell's menagerie, now exhibiting in Worcester, presented her royal spouse with a litter of five cubs.  We are happy to add that in both instances the ladies and the little ones are as well as can be expected. 

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