pox

• They also carry a disease known as squirrel pox, which is lethal to their smaller cousins.
• Oh-- something the Lieutenant has told him about a Wench; and when Cupid's in his Breeches, the Devil's ever in's Head-- how now-- What a pox is the matter with you, you look so scurvily now What, is the Gentlewoman otherwise provided? —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
• Of all the fatal methods of destroying the Indians which his white brother has introduced into the West, this plague of small-pox is the most deadly. —  The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
• Warned by the tradition of the frightful losses of earlier times from the ravages of small-pox, the Assineboines this year kept far out in the great central prairie along the coteau, and escaped the infection altogether, but their cousins, the Rocky Mountain Stonies, were not so fortunate, they lost some of their bravest men during the pre ceding summer and autumn. —  The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America
• During the period of delirium incidental to small-pox, they frequently wandered forth at night into the open air, and remained exposed for hours to dew or rain; in the latter stages of the disease they took no precautions against cold, and frequently died from relapse produced by exposure; on the other hand, they appear to have suffered but little pain after the primary fever passed away. —  The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

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