The fever increased in violence, and on the fourth day the small-pox broke out.

Cordiani and the two brothers Feitrini, who had so far escaped that disease, were immediately sent away, but as I had had it before I remained at home.
The poor girl was so fearfully covered with the loathsome eruption, that on the sixth day her skin could not be seen on any part of her body.

Her eyes closed, and her life was despaired of, when it was found that her mouth and throat were obstructed to such a degree that she could swallow nothing but a few drops of honey.

She was perfectly motionless; she breathed and that was all.

Her mother never left her bedside, and I was thought a saint when I carried my table and my books into the patient's room.