I thought you were desperately ill with smallpox and everybody deserted you, but I went boldly to your bedside and nursed you back to life; and then I took the smallpox and died and I was buried under those poplar trees in the graveyard and you planted a rosebush by my grave and watered it with your tears; and you never, never forgot the friend of your youth who sacrificed her life for you.
Or the rarity of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet?
" Among those who were part of the community there was Larry Brilliant, ·（Larry Brilliant), an epidemiologist who was working to eradicate smallpox and who later ran Google's philanthropic arm and the Skoll Foundation.
Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness.
"The eel suffers from headache, the carp has the smallpox, and we all have intestinal worms.
