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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1899
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CRYSTAL-POX, n.comb. A popular name for chicken-pox, from the transparent vesicles characteristic of the disease.Fif. 1899 Proc, Philos. Soc. Gsw. XXXI. 43:
A more serious trouble such as watery- or crystal-pox.
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