Pox on formal Fops; we have high-born and generous Souls, and scorn the common RoadCome, let's enjoy, whilst Youth and Beauty lasts.

a Pox of your TricksWell, I see there's no trusting a poor DevilWell, what Device will your Rogueship find out to cheat me next? Sham.

Small-Pox - 262 Natural Small-Pox - 263 Small-Pox in the Vaccinated - 266 Maternal Management - 268 VIII.

Up, with a pox to you; up, you lusk?

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.

You will keep and report an account of the number, ages, sex, tribe, and local situation of the Indians who may be vaccinated, and also of the prevalence, from time to time, of the small-pox among them, and of its effects as far as these can be ascertained.

To protect our health precautions are taken against the outbreak of preventable diseases, such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, etc., by requiring cleanliness in yards and alleys; and against small pox by requiring vaccination.

They are afraid of the small-pox for her.

And if we may believe physicians, many times children catch the pox from a bad nurse, Botaldus cap.

Within the last twelve months, only 503 deaths have occurred from small pox within the Bills of Mortality; whereas, in the preceding year 1299 persons are recorded as having fallen victims to that loathsome disease.

They appeared poorly clad, and needy, having suffered greatly from the small-pox during the autumn and winter.

(i.e., that one house out of every 244 was attacked by small-pox in the ordinary way), and that the area inclosed by a circle having a radius of one mile round the spot where the hospital was subsequently established (called in the report the "special area") was, as a matter of fact, rather more free from small-pox than the rest of the district.

Let us next inquire into the evidence regarding the conveyence of small-pox through the air.

Sydenham assures us, that among all the substances which occasion a derivation or revulsion from the head, none operate more powerfully than garlic applied to the soles of the feet: hence he was led to make use of it in the confluent small-pox about the eighth day, after the face began to swell; the root cut in pieces, and tied in a linen cloth, was applied to the soles, and renewed once a day till all danger was over.