Word: pox
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...churches in Port Jervis, N. Y., were closed yesterday on account of small pox...
...president and secretary of the national board of health advise that all post-office employees be revaccinated to prevent the spread of small pox...
...Small-pox is becoming a serious scourge in some parts of the country...
...dear madam!" I cried, startled to see a small-pox patient permitted to roam abroad at will, - "My dear madam, how dare you expose yourself in such a manner...
...first fire which occurred in any of the College buildings was probably that by which Harvard Hall was destroyed, including the valuable College library, - a loss which has never been fully replaced. January, 1764, on account of the prevalence of small-pox in Boston, the General Court removed their sessions to Harvard Hall, and the fire kept up for their benefit in the library is supposed to have penetrated to a beam beneath the hearth. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, that of January 24, 1764, the fire broke out, and as it was vacation...