Both Uses
smallpox
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- He was a young man, not a native of the town, with dark, curly hair and a long, pale face, marked with smallpox.†
Chpt 10 *
- 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.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(smallpox) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)