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Definition of Smallpoxes
1. smallpox [n] - See also: smallpox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smallpoxes
Literary usage of Smallpoxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and when they are met, commonly fifteen or sixteen together, the old woman
comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpoxes, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... and when they are met, commonly fifteen or sixteen together, the old woman
comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpoxes, ..."
3. In the Palaces of the Sultan by Anna Bowman Dodd (1903)
"... or sixteen together, the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter
of the best sort of smallpoxes and asks what vein you please to have opened. ..."
4. Vaccination Tracts (1892)
"... that the same vaccinators who call morbid serum "pure lymph," also denominate
the product of the artificial smallpoxes just mentioned, " pure vaccine. ..."
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