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Variola
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A mild form, varioloid, slowed down President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 soon after his Gettysburg address, causing him to remark, :There is one good thing about this, I now have something I can give everybody."
From The Language of the Civil War page 315,
From The Language of the Civil War page 315,
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