1747 



HAS SMALL-POX 49 



Coffee-house for Balm Tea . 1 9" 



Judging by the amount of the fees paid to two 

 doctors, together £31 105. Orf., and from the fact 

 that a nurse was sent from Hampshire, the attack 

 must have been a rather severe one. The patient 

 seems, however, to have quite recovered by the 

 end of December, if it was for his own use that 

 he then purchased skates and a shooting net. 



It has been suggested that the reason Gilbert 

 White never sat for his portrait was that he was 

 badly marked in the face as a result of this attack 

 of small-pox. Whether he was permanently so 

 marked or not, it is now impossible to say. But no 

 existing member of his family seems to have heard 

 that he was disfigured. The remark by Mr. Bell,^ that 



* FideBeWs edition of ' The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,' 

 vol. i. p. Iviii. 



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