Both Uses of
smallpox
in
Arrowsmith
- 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.†
Chpt 18
- I was saying to the old woman just the other day, when she had an ear-ache, 'Ain't got smallpox, have yuh, Bess!'†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars