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small pox
n. (obsolete spelling of smallpox English)
Usage examples of "small pox".
Some years later, Jefferson declared that had the slaves been emancipated, Cornwallis would have done right, but it was done to consign them to inevitable death from small pox and putrid fever then raging in his camp.
In Jeffersons estimate, Cornwallis ultimately appropriated about 30,000 slaves in Virginia alone, and of these about 27,000 died of the small pox and camp fever, and the rest were partly sent to the West Indies and exchanged for rum, sugar, coffee and fruits.
Several hundred other persons had the small pox also, but popular interest and malignity were concentrated upon the actress.