The natural small-pox is sometimes much more severe in its character than the foregoing, and what is called confluent small-pox is said to exist.

There are some a late are drawne like beares to the stake; but for your owne part the gout and the grand pox are all one to you.

Upon her describing it to Dr. Buck, who called a few hours later, he exclaimed, "Why, it was malignant small-pox!

While in London, she, by some unknown means, had contracted that fatal disease, then violently raging in the metropolisthe small-pox.

I can cry over its patient small-pox at five, and rougher medicaments I can lay its poor fevered head upon the sick pillow at Christ's and wake with it in surprise at the gentle posture of maternal tenderness hanging over it, that unknown had watched its sleep.

This is truth, and so far I dare speak yet: he has yet past cure of Physick, spaw, or any diet, a primitive pox in his bones; and o' my Knowledge he has been ten times rowell'd: ye may love him; he had a bastard, his own toward issue, whipt, and then cropt for washing out the roses, in three farthings to make 'em pence.

His person is well described by his biographer, Miss Seward, as being above the middle size, his form athletic, and his limbs too heavy for exact proportion; his countenance marked by the traces of a severe small-pox, and, when not animated by social pleasure, rather saturnine than sprightly.

But in their stewd pox, thers all their gentilitie.

If, however, as the pimples progress, they are narrowly watched, and are seen to become depressed in their centre; if there has been the precursory rigor, etc.; and if the source of the disorder can be traced to some case of undoubted small-pox, the child in fact having been exposed to contagion, no doubt ought to exist in reference to the nature of such a case, however slight may be the character of the disease.

Inoculation is performed by placing the patient in the same bed as another suffering from virulent small-pox.