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At one time the lazaretto was left without physicians, and it was

only after much trouble and time, and great offers of money and

honours, that others could be prevailed on to supply their place.

Provisions were often so scarce, as to create apprehensions of

starvation, but more than once these necessities were

unexpectedly supplied by the charity of individuals. In the midst

of the general stupor, or the indifference to the miseries of

others, occasioned by personal apprehension, some were found

whose hands and hearts had ever been open to the wretched, and

others with whom the virtue of benevolence had commenced with the

loss of all their terrestrial happiness.