Transcribed by Susan Bergeron. Geo. The Whitehaven Herald, Tuesday, April 23, 1833 Epidemic Influenza. About a fortnight ago, a severe form of catarrhal epidemic began to shew itself in London, and has since become extremely 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 anxiety, and turbulence the circulation; put after this time the urgency of the symptoms abate, leaving, however, in some cases, extreme languor, which only slowly subside. The disease, so far as we have seen, does not particularly affect those who are subject to common catarrh; many certainly have it who are 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 be looked upon as the epidemic influenza which has lately prevailed on the eastern part of Europe, and that it is travelling, like many of its predecessors to the west. Medical Gazette. The epidemic is at present very prevalent amongst all classes, and particularly in the Metropolis. Mr. Joseph HUME, Lord ALTHORP, Sir Jas. GRAHAM, Mr. O'CONNELL, and several others, have during the last week, been very seriously indisposed. .....