Quotes about pox (13 Quotes)

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

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An Inquiry into Cause and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Countries of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of Cow; Pox.

Of conditions at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a certain Dr. Albigence Waldo wrote Poor food hard lodging cold weather fatigue nasty clothes nasty cookery vomit half my time smoked out of my senses the devil's in it I can't endure it. A pox on my bad luck. There comes a bowl of beef soup full of burnt leaves and dirt, sickish enough to make a Hector spew away with it boys I'll live like the chameleon upon air... There comes a soldier, his bare feet are seen through his worn-out shoes, his legs nearly naked from the tattered remains of an only pair of stockings, his breaches not sufficient to cover his nakedness, his shirt hanging in strings his hair disheveled his face meager.... He comes and cries with an air of wretchedness and despair, 'I am sick, my feet lame, my legs are sore, my body covered with this tormenting itch ... and all the reward I shall get will be 'Poor Will is dead'

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

There is always the cliche 'a pox on both your houses.' But I do think the party in power does take extra heat on these things.

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

It was torture. It was like being stuck in the house on a Saturday afternoon with chicken pox, looking out the window and seeing everyone outside playing. Practice was the only thing that kept me sane, smelling the grass, feeling the pads and the camaraderie.

Pox take you, is no curse to some people.

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The pox, as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

Like we handle antibodies against foreign proteins and we only get viruses like measles and chicken pox once, you can form antibodies against hundreds of things on the cells, ... The future is going tobe the development of those targeted therapies so that we will evaluate cancer cells in a much different way. We will do enzyme profiles and protein profiles to come up with almost a blueprint of the cancer and pick and choose those things that are available.

terrorism and anthrax and monkey pox and a pox on everybody's houses. So no thank you.