Pox: alternatives and connections

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A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- cal…

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A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papul…

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Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

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Chicken pox.

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The smallpox.

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The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

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The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, in…

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Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

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The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and…

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