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Today is the #11thDayofChristmas. Instead of 11 pipers piping, we give you a pipe for the pox ! In Feb. 1667 Alice Thornton's eldest child, Nally, fell ill with small pox. Such was the damage to her throat that she 'could not swallow almost anything without a pipe for the small pox & streit [i.e. narrowed] throat' (Bk1). Nally recovers and lives to the age of 67.

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