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...f economic control of the Kingdom.1 And like the years before and after, 1831 saw hundreds of Hawaiians dying from strange diseases like syphilis and smallpox. In some places, as the writer Kamakau would say, the ground had already become "white with the bones of the dead."2 No wonder that Kathleen Mellen was moved to write: "As the tumultous year of 1831 drew to a close i...

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... Europeans are also accused of importing pathogens, disease causing agents, such as smallpox and measles, malaria and yellow fever. Indigenous peopl... ...within a few years. Russian troops adopted the same tactic against Sweden in 1710. Smallpox was another favorite. Francisco Pizarro (1476- 1541) gav... .... During the French and Indian wars in North America (1689- 1763), blankets used by smallpox victims were given to American Indians. General Jeffery... ...ndians. General Jeffery Amherst (1717-1797) gifted Indians loyal to the French with smallpox- contaminated bedspreads during the French and Indian W...

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...been honoured with a knighthood in his own right. Then the news came that his wife had died from smallpox and Helen chided herself for her uncharita... ...t upset me. Maria died as she had lived and we were relieved when death released her, because the smallpox would have left her disfigured with scars... ... her. She preferred to keep very much to herself and then she contracted that terrible scourge of smallpox. It was all very sad and after her death,... ...hat I decided enough was enough. I was considering asking her for a divorce, when she contracted smallpox from the bazaars and died.’ Audrey Blan... ...le for Gavin to continue as Resident. I believe it was fortuitous for Gavin that Maria contracted smallpox and her death relieved him of the trauma ... ...still a threat. One of the Gurkha children developed gangrenous chickenpox and its resemblance to smallpox caused a great deal of panic amongst the ...

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... cure it. She compared the goddesses. Mariamma who was a sole goddess to cure smallpox. She only blamed the people for their inability to discover a... ...onducted on all citizens to find out whether anyone has AIDS like for smallpox/ 273 diabetes/leprosy? : 138.* We talk about diabetes, ...

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... cross-mutation with the alien wasp proved to be a complete success as Grailem was immune to all disease. Deliberately exposed to deadly viruses like smallpox, rabies and even the common cold his living brain rejected them all. The newly designed skull enclosing the brain had also proved a success as the nutrient levels remained steady during the years of study. An imp...

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...ed Gruelle to write Raggedy Ann Stories, which was sold with its very own Raggedy Ann doll. Sadly, Marcella died at age 13 after complications from a smallpox vaccine, but Gruelle continued writing about Raggedy Ann. (description by Zachary Brewster-Geisz)...

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...mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.” Though not all chapters have such gruesome subjects a...

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...Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they ...

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... gloomiest corner on the floor beneath a filthy blanket. Is it fever, one asks, or smallpox? ... the answer comes ..., 'He is ill with fear.' ... L... ...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ...

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...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ...

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...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ...

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...pans by eliminating or reducing the microbial scourges of the past, such as smallpox. And while AIDS has eliminated a large number of the population...

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... The mentally sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against th...

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...pposedly know it all, even though they haven't cured one disease since what smallpox? As a matter of fact, heart disease, cancer, — diabetes, even a...

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...immediate depopulation of Indians due to European induced diseases such as smallpox, was taken as Divine Providence’s endorsement of Puritan settlemen...

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...ke any white woman. Sunday 1863 A president is not permitted to have smallpox but I have a mild case, nonetheless. Bed is a poor spot to keep u...

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...cted on all citizens to find out whether anyone has AIDS like for smallpox/ diabetes/leprosy? : 148.* We talk about diabetes, leprosy ...

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...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ... ...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ...

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...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ... ...y sick receive the same treatment as carriers of AIDS or SARS or the Ebola virus or smallpox. They are sometimes quarantined against their will and ...

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...eir crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- Death of the emperor -- Guatemozin becomes monarch of Mexic...