All 5 Uses of
smallpox
in
Gone with the Wind
- 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.†
Chpt 2.16 *
- Had he fallen victim to smallpox?†
Chpt 2.16
- Or was he dead of smallpox months ago, rotting in some long ditch with hundreds of other Confederates?†
Chpt 3.24
- Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.†
Chpt 4.37
- 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.†
Chpt 5.57
Definition:
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars