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The Small Pox

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  • Title: The Small Pox
  • Date: 12 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00762
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 12 March 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: W Max Radl Kaylen Michaelis Tara Ballard Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Small Pox." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00762.xml (TEI)
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THE SMALL POX.—

There are undoubtedly an unusual number of well-defined cases of small-pox in our midst, but not near so many as rumor would have it. In one house, we were assured that a child was ill of this loathsome disease, but on enquiry we found it to be a case of congestion of the lungs, and we doubt not there are other equally erroneous impressions extant in regard to its whereabouts. Those who have never been vaccinated should not delay taking this precautionary step for a moment, and those who have been vaccinated will do well to have the operation repeated.

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