Chicken ___ (childhood disease)

Usage examples of pox.

Or, he is the Faustus, That casteth figures and can conjure, cures Plagues, piles, and pox, by the ephemerides, And holds intelligence with all the bawds And midwives of three shires: while you send in -- Captain!

Massey has bruised her soul and I think given her lesions on mouth and cunny that bespeak the pox.

This cackle of geriatric cynicism ill became such a creature made for pleasure as Jeanne, but was pox not the emblematic fate of a creature made for pleasure and the price you paid for the atrocious mixture of corruption and innocence this child of the sun brought with her from the Antilles?

He who slew him was the surgeon Feuchter at Cremsir, who applied thirtysix mercurial plasters on a gland in his left groin which was swollen but not by the pox, as I am sure by the description he gave me of the cause of the swelling.

Sixteen years of motherhood, of nursing fevers and flues, chicken pox and measles, fractures and stitches, kicked into high gear.

It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi.

He who slew him was the surgeon Feuchter at Cremsir, who applied thirtysix mercurial plasters on a gland in his left groin which was swollen but not by the pox, as I am sure by the description he gave me of the cause of the swelling.

Spanish poxes, cause poxes done a lot more damage than all them swords and blunderbusses put together.

The epidemics of small pox, which had at times decimated whole tribes of Indians, were got rid of by the introduction of vaccination.

Ryan Cawdor had to have passed through hundreds of these stinking little frontier pestholes, with their filthy hovels and their poxed gaudies and brutally dangerous drinking bars.

There are a few gaudies and scabby sluts who pox you just by breathing on you.

Surely there is no illness on all Caledonia more fearsome than the pox.

In addition to the Bacillus anthracis anthrax that was identified that first day, based on the symptoms, it was quickly determined that Variola major – hemorrhagic, the most fatal version of small pox, and Yersinia pestis, commonly known as the Plague, had all been involved in the weapon that was employed against the United States and the rest of the free world.

These included “milliner’s sniffle, ploughman’s hunch, blains which pain the privy member, rat pox, cacky ear, trouser mite, the curly worms that worry from within” and sundry other terrible afflictions.

A bad combination of cancelers will kill a patient as easily as the blue pox.