... prevent the occurrence of measles, A slender and delicate diet is always dangerous in lingering dis- eases.— HlfEOCBHES. small-pox, hooping-cough, consumption, and the more desperate descriptions of fever, and avoid leaving any mark upon the skin for the ...

... were taken prisoners. The Governor had returned, after having made a tour of inquiry into the state of public affairs. The small-pox rageswith considerable violence in the north-eastern part of BeSga-l. The public authorities were striving all in their power ...

... to the beginning of April are receiv The Gazette of tWB^7|.fe,of March states that great rava; were being rnad^ Jjy thi small-pox among the Europe community. Within thfe three preceding days some fg cases had been known. Two of these were officers in ...

... January,* February and March only 1 out of 3125 reaches 100 years. The greatest number of births is in February and March. The small-pox, in the natural way, usually carries off 8 out of every 100 it attacks by inocculation 1 dies out of every 300. The proportion ...

... unalterable attachment. His glorious career there is recorded on the page of history. On his re- turn he found that the small-pox had almost totally de- stroyed the loveliness of the lady's face. She told the sol- dier that she released him from his vows; ...

... Brougham Hall, on Christmas day. In the course of the last three weeks, no less than eighty- three children have died of the small-pox in Sheepshead, Leicestershire. A dangerous fever has for some time prevailed in Edin- burgh. Ninety-two cases were admitted ...

... bugbear, the cholera There is a story extant of the wiseacres of another place throwing a net over the town to keep off the small-pox. We re- commend a similar precaution to the Hoddesden worthies. It is said, but we know not with what truth, that a wise ...

... for trial at Lancaster, for having been concerned in a fight, in which a man named Parkinson was killed on the spot. The small-pox has been raging in Horsham, near Brighton, to an alarming extent. A huckster, named Jupp, first failed in the East-street ...

... in the Highlands several years ago related to me the manner it; which she restored one of two children who were ill of the smallpox the olhes-died in consequence (of course) of some informality in administering the iiicav)taiion, &c., and iiot from any ...

... be about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, rather stout, oval visage, light complexion, slightly pitted with small-pox, and has a wooden leg. This man, being asked his name, said, that, by the father's side, he was named Patter- son, by the ...

... window of his bed-room, and received a further injury of the head. Since this, to crown the miseries of the wretched man, the small-pox has made its appearance, leaving little hope of his recovery. Early in July last, a most wholesale robbery was com- mitted ...

... pro- ceeds so acquired, to the erection of a convenient Market-house for the town, as recommended at the said meeting. The small-pox, we are sorry to state, has of late been very prevalent in Monmouth and Ross, and in both places has proved fatal in many ...