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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Chicken-pox. Also swine's pox.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.

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Examples

  • “There were about half a dozen instances of people who never had either the cow-or swine-pox, yet did not receive the smallpox, the system not being in the least deranged, or the arms inflamed, although they were repeatedly inoculated, and associated with others who were labouring under the disease; one of them was the son of a farrier.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

  • “I also inoculated a very considerable number of those who had had a disease which ran through the neighbourhood a few years ago, and was called by the common people the swine-pox, not one of whom received the smallpox.

    II. Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1799 1909

  • “There were about half a dozen instances of people who never had either the cow - or swine-pox, yet did not receive the smallpox, the system not being in the least deranged, or the arms inflamed, although they were repeatedly inoculated, and associated with others who were labouring under the disease; one of them was the son of a farrier.

    II. Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1799 1909

  • I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Thence I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Thence I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660

  • [Footnote: This was that mild variety of the smallpox which I have noticed in the late Treatise on the Cow-Pox (p. 233).] "There were about half a dozen instances of people who never had either the cow-or swine-pox, yet did not receive the smallpox, the system not being in the least deranged, or the arms inflamed, although they were repeatedly inoculated, and associated with others who were labouring under the disease; one of them was the son of a farrier."

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • “I also inoculated a very considerable number of those who had had a disease which ran through the neighbourhood a few years ago, and was called by the common people the swine-pox, not one of whom received the smallpox.

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

  • Cow – Pox (p. 233).] “There were about half a dozen instances of people who never had either the cow-or swine-pox, yet did not receive the smallpox, the system not being in the least deranged, or the arms inflamed, although they were repeatedly inoculated, and associated with others who were labouring under the disease; one of them was the son of a farrier.”

    On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

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