Word: pox
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...before 1800, an empirical method of protecting man against one dread disease now known to be caused by a virus: infection with cowpox ("vaccinia," hence the general term vaccination) would ward off later infection with the deadly and disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...
...Chicken Pox. Essentially the same virus also causes shingles. First grown in test tubes in 1953 in John F. Enders' lab by Dr. Thomas Weller, who has since devised diagnostic tests, hopes for future preventives...
...cases of "Honegar," a honey-and-vinegar preparation promoted as a traditional Vermont remedy by Dr. DeForest Clinton Jarvis, bestselling author of Folk Medicine (TIME, Dec. 28). Said U.S. Attorney Theodore F. Bowes: the stuff is touted as good for about 35 ailments, ranging from arthritis to chicken pox, but cannot be sold in interstate commerce "until the label tells how to use the product to get the cures claimed...
...systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria in seven. Last week in Iquitos, Peruvian and Colombian health ministers signed a bilateral pact to eradicate small pox, malaria and yellow fever in ther parts of the Amazon basin...
Councillor Edward A. Crane did not attend the meeting, as he reportedly has chicken pox. Councillor Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler also absented herself. City Clerk Frederick H. Burke is in Miami Beach. Ex-Councillor Hyman Pill arrived shortly after the meeting closed...