... the earth, so that not even the dogs of the place may be injured by them. + • + • And just now, when there is a dread of small-pox haunting Dubliners, in addition to the fear of fevers with which our city is always pursued, can we afford to run any risks ...

... for weeks. She was a feverish subject ; had she thought of the sicknesses that periodically scourged the East —cholera and small-pox ? Fairy. who was constitutionally nervous, shuddered visibly. Had she thought of long journeys on horseback, she who shrieked ...

... am forcibly reminded of it by the kindness of the medical papers in endeavouring to frighten us into fear of the cholera, small-pox, and other fell diseases. Our houses, we are told, are absolutely swarming with microbes ; carpets and chair-cushions are ...

... year. Miss Fawcett's attainments as a mathematician are remarkable, and her capacity for sustained work very great. As the small-pox scare is rife at present, it may not he inappropriate to counsel a calm habit of mind. Panic is dangerous as well as unp ...

... always at hand it is never wise to wait, as you must know to your cost. JULIA S.—Everyone is so scared just now about small-pox, I am glad your little ones have only whooping.cough instead. Not that I wish to make light of your trouble, for it is a ...

... clutches. Ahem! Artistic, yes. A dark hand; a Wile deceitful; not much heart ; very ambitious. I see some disease, like small-pox, or a bad accident, in store for you ; you will marry when you are about forty. Let me look again. No, you and your husband ...

... heat is so awful. She wants me to take her ?• 0 Lord ! ejaculated Mr. Brande. We would sooner take anything—short of small-pox. Wire at once—no room here—there are telegraph forms on my writing-table. - Too late, groaned Mrs. Brande ; she has ...

... wife are being vaccinated, and panic in Dublin has reached red-hot pitch. It is all the most arrant nonsense. The demon of small-pox is (like his brother with the hoofs and tail) not so black as he is painted—and, even were it otherwise, scare can do no ...

... done to her. During a recent small-pox scare in a certain town in the Midlands, an old lady from the country wanted to take a cab, but was rather anxious, having been told that many of the cabs had been used to convey small-pox patients to the hospitals ...

... at the Curragh. The military authorities in Dublin are taking the utmost precautions against the prevailing epidemic of small-pox. They have ordered that all men joining the station are at mice to be sent for examination, with a view of ascertaining that ...

... between each worda craze that flourished in Paris in the early part of this year, when Oh, where shall rest be found ? small-pox was raging in that city. A certain number of persons, Rest for the weary soul, belonging to fashionable society, would meet ...

... Domestic and Public Hygiene will be given during January and February at the Molesworth Hall. The Council have chosen Small-pox as the subject of the opening lecture of the series, in which it is hoped that the arguments used in favour of vaccination ...