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He survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV.
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Born in College Wynd in the Old Town of Edinburgh in 1771, the son of a solicitor, Scott survived a childhood bout of polio in 1773 that left him lame.
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A son and a daughter, Daniel ( 1751 – 1754 ) and Frances ( 1753 – 1757 ), died in childhood, but two other children, John ( Jacky ) Parke Custis ( 1754 – 1781 ) and Martha (" Patsy ") Parke Custis ( 1756 – 1773 ) survived to young adulthood.
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None of their 3 children survived childhood, and she died on 4 February 1743 giving birth to the third of them.
survived and bout
Given his poor health history, during 1918 Munch felt himself lucky to have survived a bout of the Spanish Flu, the worldwide pandemic of that year.
He survived a childhood bout with polio that left him with significant physical limitations for the rest of his life ( see medical history ).
Haycraft survived a bout of lung cancer but died a year later after secondary complications at age 72, in 2005.
Barrasso founded the Ashley Barrasso Cancer Research Fund during the early 1990s after his daughter survived a bout with neuroblastoma cancer.
He moved from New York to New Orleans and survived a bout with yellow fever and then to St. Louis where he worked in a jewelry store.
Six weeks prior, Small survived a bout with encephalitis that included a medically induced coma lasting eight days.
survived and smallpox
In 1529, a measles outbreak in Cuba killed two-thirds of the natives who had previously survived smallpox.
However, Gray died the following year, at the age of 34, having contracted smallpox while treating his nephew ( who survived ).
Born in present-day New York, she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of her life at the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France.
She contracted and survived smallpox in 1720, and two years later her mother helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation against smallpox ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
As a child he became gravely ill with smallpox, and although he survived, he was left with deformed fingers on both hands.
Before its eradication, smallpox was one of the world's most virulent viruses, responsible for millions of deaths, and leaving many of the victims who survived with disfiguring scars for life.
Phipps survived, and was subsequently inoculated with smallpox more than 20 times without succumbing to the disease.
Australian virologist Frank Fenner, an authority on smallpox and principal author of the 1988 World Health Organisation report, Smallpox and its Eradication, felt that it is not possible for live smallpox to have survived the long voyage out from England or the next fifteen months before the first cases were seen amongst Aborigines near the settlement but, he did not address the literature relevant to the variolous material in bottles brought from England.
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