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... easore". The term "smallpox" is a relatively recent occurrence. It is taken from a Buddhist term and refers to "celestial fairy flowers, fairy flowers scattered". Saying bad things auspiciously may be a way to euphemistically express the disease. Europeans lack the patience of the Chinese, and the name for smallpox comes directly from the Latin variola, which means infectious disease.

  Whether it’s a soothing euphemism or a blunt one, it’s bad news.

  In the seventh year of Qianlo ...

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