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Chickenpox
Antedating examples of “chickenpox”
BMJ 2022; 377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1523 (Published 23 June 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;377:o1523
- Jeffrey K Aronson, consultant physician and clinical pharmacologist
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- jeffrey.aronson{at}phc.ox.ac.uk
The earliest example of the use of the word “chickenpox” in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was from Chambers Cyclopedia of 1727. The antedating quotation I gave …
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