Word: pox
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There have been several cases of small pox at Yale, and orders have been given that every student should be vaccinated, unless he could furnish proof of having been vaccinated within two years...
...college is about to close for the Christmas recess, and men will be leaving Cambridge for all parts of the country, it will be well to take extra preoaution that no contagious disease be brought back here from other places. There is a possibility of an epidemic of small-pox this winter and it is very important that every man here should be vaccinated immediately if he has not been vaccinated within two or three years. It is pretty generally accepted among medical men that vaccination does not render a man proof against the disease for more than five years...
Edward Augustus Freeman, the celebrated historian, died in Spain last Wednesday of small pox. He was born in 1823, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, at the age of 22, and since devoted himself to literature, his greatest work being the "History of the Norman Conquest of England...
...Report, 1876-'77, III. 3. Practice of gambling. 4. Degraded religion; Forum, VI, 201. 5. Utter disregard for oaths. 6. Criminality; T. J. Vivian in Scribner XII, 862. b. Socially. 1. Unhealthy Report, 1886. 2. Impossibility of amalgamation; Overl. Mo. VII, 429. 3. Contamination through opium smoking, leprosy, small pox; Harper's Mag. 42, 139. 4. Dangers to American youth of both sexes; Overal. VIII, 374. c. Politically. 1. Inability and unwillingness to become citizens; Senate Report 76-77, III. 2. Refusal to obey our laws; Nation, vol. 34, p. 337. 3. Secret system of slavery. d. Economically. Injuries...