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…showed last 75 words of 816 total…into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to their lovers. (1) Smallpox killed off three empires, generation after generation of helpless families and thousands and thousands of infants and children. It was a disease like no other. It changed the lives of society, and it changed, as well as advanced, the knowledge and practice of medicine for years to come. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**