Word: pox
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surrounding it. It is also impossible to collect statistics showing of what diseases college men die, but it is probable that there is no disease in anyway peculiar to them. One fifth of the community die of contagious diseases, but from these college men suffer very little. From small pox no intelligent community need suffer. A vaccination in early life, however, does not retain its virtue always, and if there are men in college who have not been vaccinated since thirteen or four-teen they had better be so now. Typhoid fever is the contagious disease most likely to make...
...thirteenth of this month the General Court was invited to dine at college, at which time it was called Hollis Hall in gratitude to the late and present worthy gentleman of that name - since that time the Small-Pox has been in Boston in 20 familys which has drove a third almost of this people out of Boston, and the General Court adjourned to the College, the Council to the Library, and the House, to the Hall where they have met for the despatch of Public Business till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock...
...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
...Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of anglo-mania have broken out. The Crimson has them well under way, however. - Efforts are being made to remove Boylston Museum and Francis street to cambridge. - The conference have voted that (h)ashes must not be slung on the slippery floor in Memorial Hall...
...obscure member of the senior class has received the following despatch from his father in California: "Heard of the small-pox to-day. Come home at once...