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  • It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree.†   (source)
  • "Smallpox is tricky," Miss Mary Finch said to me when Momma died.†   (source)
  • I've seen them all born alive, and not one lost to smallpox or tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer.†   (source)
  • Renwick Smallpox Hospital was designed by architect Jacob Renwick and intended to quarantine the poorest victims of Manhattan's uncontrollable smallpox epidemic.†   (source)
  • The only time I got close to a medical person was waiting in line for a barefoot nurse to give us smallpox shots.†   (source)
  • Spread through that population even faster than smallpox.†   (source)
  • I use plague arrows to strike down naughty populations with smallpox, athlete's foot, that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • Time had moderated his early impulse for growth and he was a man of average height marked by smallpox scars, but his amazing power for manual destruction remained intact.†   (source)
  • The guy is running to Fugazi, the very tail end of "Smallpox Champion."†   (source)
  • Thanksgiving, on the other hand, was good for the truth about the Pilgrims' lives, which wasn't only about friendly dinners with Native Americans, but instead included the Salem witch hunts, smallpox epidemics, and a nasty tendency toward incest.†   (source)
  • Smallpox maybe.†   (source)
  • Some of the victims had been put into isolation huts on the edge of the village—an old African technique for dealing with smallpox.†   (source)
  • Models of the public health approach include smallpox vaccination programs, oral rehydration therapy to save babies with diarrhea, and campaigns to encourage seat belts and air bags in vehicles.†   (source)
  • Orphaned as a child by smallpox, which had also left a faint lunar landscape on her cheeks, the probationer had from a young age addressed her self-consciousness by becoming excessively studious, a trait encouraged by the Italian nuns, the Sisters of the Nigrizia (Africa), who raised her in the orphanage in Asmara.†   (source)
  • Elmira had been married in Missouri to a fellow named Dee Boot, about whom she had never talked much—she just said he died of smallpox.†   (source)
  • A so' th'oat is as ketchin' as smallpox, and I know it so to be, though they is them that say it ain't.†   (source)
  • Many were missing teeth or fingers, pitted by smallpox or scarred by past wars or the all-too-common hazards of life and toil in the eighteenth century.†   (source)
  • Howard Hiatt had introduced Jim and Paul to the foundation's senior science adviser, a man named Bill Foege, one of the people responsible for the eradication of smallpox, known to favor unconventional approaches to supposedly impossible problems.†   (source)
  • Father treated sleeping sickness, plague, smallpox, and leprosy.†   (source)
  • His skin was pitted by smallpox and he had a thin moustache which Salander found absurd.†   (source)
  • Dibloxin 42, a smallpox vaccine, for example, could be deposited in a country's water supply, effectively administering the vaccine to the whole population without fear of overdosing any one person, regardless of how much water was consumed.†   (source)
  • As a toddler, Christa had a terrible reaction to a smallpox vaccination.†   (source)
  • Pore thang got over thar and died of the smallpox two months later.†   (source)
  • Couldn't you say they had sickness-smallpox-or picked another cabin?†   (source)
  • Have you received a smallpox vaccination within the last twelve months?†   (source)
  • He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets.†   (source)
  • There had been a time when a railroad man, reporting for duty with any sign of intoxication, would have been regarded as a doctor arriving for work with sores of smallpox on his face.†   (source)
  • This woman, I could see, had deep pockmarks stippling her high, fleshy cheeks, like the scarring from a mistreated bout of chickenpox or smallpox, and she stood much shorter than I first thought, barely five feet in her heeled shoes.†   (source)
  • White people selling Indians junk cars and trucks reminded Tayo of the Army captain in the 1860s who made a gift of wool blankets to the Apaches: the entire stack of blankets was infected with smallpox.†   (source)
  • Smallpox.†   (source)
  • It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.†   (source)
  • And even if it's got smallpox, black death, and ten thousand hangnails, there ain't no doctor knows how to cure it.†   (source)
  • He inspected my photograph, opened the yellow smallpox vaccination certificate stapled to the back cover.†   (source)
  • When I was five years old, I knew the alphabet, I'd been vaccinated (for smallpox), and I could read.†   (source)
  • India and Japan felt that the smallpox epidemic on the West Coast of the United States, Canada, and in Mexico should receive equal priority.†   (source)
  • Both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln survived their smallpox infections.
  • The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything.†   (source)
  • Having smallpox once — if it didn't kill you — meant you couldn't get it again.†   (source)
  • There were teachers and nurses on board, with boxes of smallpox vaccine.†   (source)
  • There were outbreaks of camp fever, smallpox, and dysentery amongst the rebel troops.†   (source)
  • He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.†   (source)
  • It was smallpox, the most dreaded disease of all.†   (source)
  • He returned with Paul and Martin, who were both safe from smallpox.†   (source)
  • She survived a smallpox plague that took her daughter, who had just gotten engaged.†   (source)
  • Red boils had erupted on his face, so he looked like a smallpox victim.†   (source)
  • And as Dr. Thacher noted with concern, smallpox was "lurking" still in several parts of town.†   (source)
  • Smallpox was the "King of Terrors," the enemy to be feared more than any other.†   (source)
  • I might get the smallpox anyway, unless I'm lucky.†   (source)
  • American Revolution: British forces expose civilians to smallpox in Quebec and Boston.†   (source)
  • "She said he died of smallpox," July said.†   (source)
  • The face was largely unlined, but freckled and sun-beaten and slightly scarred by smallpox.†   (source)
  • Further, Philadelphia was notorious for its deadly epidemics of smallpox.†   (source)
  • Smallpox appeared and several soldiers died.†   (source)
  • "Nabby has enough of the smallpox for all the family beside," Abigail would report.†   (source)
  • It was the last time she saw Dee that they had worked out the smallpox story.†   (source)
  • But he was shy, and while he was getting around to asking, Betsie died of smallpox.†   (source)
  • Smallpox reappeared in the city, putting everyone further on edge.†   (source)
  • A generally mild case of smallpox would result, yet the risk of death was relatively slight.†   (source)
  • I think of smallpox as something out of the Middle Ages, like the Black Plague.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I have to read about the effects of smallpox on indigenous populations tonight, so I can't really solve The Case of the Fugitive Billionaire.†   (source)
  • They straightened up inside the fence, looking up toward the smallpox hospital, where gathered dark shapes, massed on the porch, were beginning to move down the steps.†   (source)
  • An outbreak of smallpox or cholera or any of the other lethal infections that roamed the city could irreparably taint the exposition and destroy any hopes the directors had of achieving the record attendance necessary to generate a profit.†   (source)
  • The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses-smallpox, influenza, and so on.†   (source)
  • Smallpox was hideous in both the way it presented and the disfigurement it left without really offering any constructive symbolic possibilities.†   (source)
  • Smallpox.†   (source)
  • The Church was willing to accept a little bit of xenoglossia if it helped convert heathens, as in the case of St. Louis Bertrand who converted thousands of Indians in the sixteenth century, spreading glossolalia across the continent faster than smallpox.†   (source)
  • In the third novel of the series, Mountolive, Leila Hosnani contracts smallpox, which she takes as a sign of divine judgment against her vanity and her marital lapse.†   (source)
  • Least of all Neto, the young doctor-poet who just meant to spare his people from the scarring diseases of smallpox and humiliation.†   (source)
  • In his Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell introduces numerous characters with disabilities and deformities of various sorts—two with eye patches (although one is faking it) and one with a glass eye, one with a harelip, one who contracts smallpox and is badly scarred, one whose hand, impaled by an accidental speargun, shot, must be amputated to save her life, one who is deaf, and several with limbs missing.†   (source)
  • John had known him since the smallpox epidemic of 1764, when John had gone to Boston to be inoculated.†   (source)
  • The mosquitoes left welts on her ankles, arms, and neck, so she probably looked like a smallpox victim.†   (source)
  • Some 1.5 million people once died annually from smallpox; since it was eradicated in 1977, about 45 million lives have been saved.†   (source)
  • She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there.†   (source)
  • Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague.†   (source)
  • The unfairness of the Admiralty in London, the irony of Horn-blower's seasickness, the tragedy of his returning from a long voyage to find his children mortally ill with smallpox ....I had my equivalents, trivial as they were, for all these perils.†   (source)
  • He shot away as though I had smallpox.†   (source)
  • Like getting a couple of colds maybe, and you begin to think you won't never get real sick, and then you get a dose of smallpox and you know that you were never truly sick before at all.†   (source)
  • Or consider the $32 million that the United States invested over ten years in the global battle to eradicate smallpox.†   (source)
  • Examples include the eradication of smallpox, vaccination campaigns, and battles against river blindness and guinea worm disease.†   (source)
  • It was the first and only time Washington had ever been beyond American shores and the place where he was "strongly attacked" by smallpox.†   (source)
  • Bill Foege, a legendary figure in public health who helped eradicate smallpox, believes that genital cutting is finally on its way out, largely because of the work of Molly and the staff at Tostan.†   (source)
  • And the United States recoups its $32 million investment in smallpox every two months, simply because Americans no longer need to pay to be vaccinated against it.†   (source)
  • There was further bleak news from Canada, including word that General John Thomas, who had been sent north with the expectation that he could set things straight there, had died of smallpox.†   (source)
  • He was really a French-Canadian who had been a trader on the Red River of the North and had gone broke when smallpox hit the tribes.†   (source)
  • Because of the outbreak of smallpox in Boston, thousands of people had come in from the surrounding countryside to be inoculated.†   (source)
  • If anybody asks say your husband died of smallpox— you can get to be a widow without ever having been married.†   (source)
  • Because of the money saved by eradication, that investment has yielded a 46 percent annual return in the three decades since smallpox was eradicated—a better investment than any stock in that period.†   (source)
  • But it was also said that numbers of the sick had been sent "with [the] design of spreading the smallpox through this country and camp," an accusation Washington refused to believe.†   (source)
  • In Canada, where the remnants of an American army were still holding out, the situation was gravely compounded by the ravages of smallpox.†   (source)
  • I was told he died of smallpox.†   (source)
  • But when another 150 desperate people were dispatched from Boston, as smallpox continued unabated there, Washington described the disease as a "weapon of defense they are using against us."†   (source)
  • Smallpox worried him most of all.†   (source)
  • Ellie told me he died of smallpox.†   (source)
  • It was early afternoon when the first troops from Roxbury—500 men who had already had smallpox and were thus immune—crossed the Neck and marched into Boston, drums beating, flags flying, and led by Artemus Ward on horseback.†   (source)
  • Then, on July 16, came a letter from Abigail's uncle, Isaac Smith, reporting that Abigail, acting on her own, had decided that she and the children must be inoculated for smallpox.†   (source)
  • Full-grown, he was a burly figure, about five feet ten inches tall, with the arms and shoulders of a foundryman, and handsome, though an inoculation for smallpox had left a cloudy spot in his right eye.†   (source)
  • Didn't he die of smallpox?†   (source)
  • Worse, smallpox raged.†   (source)
  • During the terrible smallpox epidemic of 1764, when Boston became "one great hospital," he went to the city to be inoculated, an often harrowing, potentially fatal ordeal extending over many days.†   (source)
  • The technique, the same as still practiced by Dr. Boylston, was to make a small incision, then with a quill scoop the "pus from the ripe pustules" of a smallpox patient into the open cut.†   (source)
  • In a dispatch of July 11, Washington reported that an outbreak of smallpox in Bostonhad infected some of the troops and that every precaution was being taken to prevent the spread of infection to New York.†   (source)
  • Once walking through Potter's Field in Philadelphia the previous April, Adams had been overcome by the thought that more than 2,000 American soldiers had already been buried there, nearly all victims of smallpox and camp diseases.†   (source)
  • With smallpox spreading in Boston, the British command had allowed pathetic columns of the ill-clad, starving poor of Boston to come pouring out of town and into the American lines, many of them sick, and all in desperate need of food and shelter.†   (source)
  • It was there, in Boston, that smallpox inoculation had been introduced in America more than half a century earlier, and by a kinsman of Adams, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, Adams's great uncle on his mother's side.†   (source)
  • Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • Smallpox!†   (source)
  • Smallpox!†   (source)
  • Smallpox.†   (source)
  • I've heard they can't stand smallpox.†   (source)
  • Not understanding that Lib, mentally, was no longer in the room with them, Sam Hazzard inquired, "What about smallpox?"†   (source)
  • ....against smallpox.†   (source)
  • She murmured, "Smallpox."†   (source)
  • Smallpox and measles had taken heavy toll here time and again.†   (source)
  • Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.†   (source)
  • The police watching you, the soldiers gathering taxes, the beating you always get from the jefe because you are too poor to pay, smallpox and fever, hunger...that is all part of heaven —the preparation.†   (source)
  • "Yes, look," she said, "and we lay up there in that God-forsaken shack—both of us, my brother and me—we were kids—and it was the smallpox—and my father was a drunk no-good—he was off drunk, crying and drinking in a saloon if he could beg a dime—crying and telling how the kiddies, the sweet little angel kiddies, was sick—oh, he was a drunk lousy warm-hearted kid-beating crying Irishman—and my brother died—and he ought to have lived—it wouldn't have mattered to him—not to a man—bu†   (source)
  • Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pest-house.†   (source)
  • He opened his coat hastily and thrust the child's head into his bosom and he said in a loud voice, "What a pity our child is a female whom no one could want and covered with smallpox as well!†   (source)
  • When the health authorities tried to explain to the poor and illiterate that vaccination was a giving of the harmless form of smallpox to work up immunity against the deadly form, the parents didn't believe it.†   (source)
  • But his face, with small beak and the pricked skin of smallpox, didn't stock anything in gratification as we understand it.†   (source)
  • You could trust God to make allowances, but you couldn't trust smallpox, starvation, men ...He said, 'My dear,' tightening his grip upon the brandy bottle ...He had baptized her at his last visit: she had been like a rag doll with a wrinkled aged face — it had seemed unlikely that she would live long.... He had felt nothing but a regret; it was difficult even to feel shame where no one blamed him.†   (source)
  • Or was he dead of smallpox months ago, rotting in some long ditch with hundreds of other Confederates?†   (source)
  • As to where he got the money, it seems it was sent him by someone he nursed through a case of smallpox at Rock Island.†   (source)
  • Had he fallen victim to smallpox?†   (source)
  • While teaching in Mississippi, one of her pupils became ill with smallpox.†   (source)
  • Oh, Diana, do you suppose that it's possible you're really taking the smallpox?†   (source)
  • She was but half conscious; she was dying of smallpox.†   (source)
  • When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?†   (source)
  • Then they ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.†   (source)
  • A fine constitution doesn't insure one against smallpox or any other of those inevitable diseases.†   (source)
  • I was saying to the old woman just the other day, when she had an ear-ache, 'Ain't got smallpox, have yuh, Bess!'†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXIX — THE SMALLPOX HUT†   (source)
  • I thought you were desperately ill with smallpox and everybody deserted you, but I went boldly to your bedside and nursed you back to life; and then I took the smallpox and died and I was buried under those poplar trees in the graveyard and you planted a rosebush by my grave and watered it with your tears; and you never, never forgot the friend of your youth who sacrificed her life for you.†   (source)
  • Mary Dusak was broad and brown of countenance, slightly marked by smallpox, but handsome for all that.†   (source)
  • MOTHER Elizabeth Willard, the mother of George Willard, was tall and gaunt and her face was marked with smallpox scars.†   (source)
  • One was of middle age, with a black beard, but the other was a youth of eighteen, with a face deeply scarred by smallpox and with one eye only.†   (source)
  • Smallpox in 'Onolulu, two broken legs in Shanghai, pnuemonia in Unalaska, three busted ribs an' my insides all twisted in 'Frisco.†   (source)
  • I'm real sorry you're going to leave us...Well, come back some day and we'll take a shot at the ducks, and have a good laugh about that bull you made over the smallpox.†   (source)
  • Smallpox!†   (source)
  • Sick of the smallpox at his age!†   (source)
  • He was a young man, not a native of the town, with dark, curly hair and a long, pale face, marked with smallpox.†   (source)
  • He was also re-vaccinated (from which we may assume that there had been another epidemic of smallpox at Lucknow) about the same time.†   (source)
  • This work contains, in the first part, a journey of discovery in the west of Carolina; the account of which, given in the form of a journal, is in general confused and superficial; but it contains a very striking description of the mortality caused among the savages of that time both by the smallpox and the immoderate use of brandy; with a curious picture of the corruption of manners prevalent amongst them, which was increased by the presence of Europeans.†   (source)
  • I like being doctored too; in the spring there was an outbreak of smallpox and I went and was vaccinated in a foundling hospital—if only you knew how I enjoyed myself that day.†   (source)
  • "It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos, desirous of taking his turn in the conversation; "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face."†   (source)
  • Yes; but there's this difference between love and smallpox, or bewitchment either—that if you detect the disease at an early stage and try change of air, there is every chance of complete escape without any further development of symptoms.†   (source)
  • The smallpox!†   (source)
  • The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.†   (source)
  • I've never had smallpox, but I can walk through a room full of dying men and never catch it.†   (source)
  • That must be Nairn, Bran's grandfather, Jamie, and his older brother Willie, who had died of the smallpox at eleven.†   (source)
  • I hope that smallpox up there doesn't get worse.†   (source)
  • I detest such creatures; and it would be much better for them that their faces had been seamed with the smallpox; but I must confess, I never saw any of this wanton behaviour in poor Jenny: some artful villain, I am convinced, hath betrayed, nay perhaps forced her; and I pity the poor wretch with all my heart.†   (source)
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