Smallpox
Smallpox — a disfiguring, contagious scourge — often touches unexpected, shocking sickness and probable contagion, with failure in your designs. The dream may ask where a sudden, spreading affliction threatens you, and whether something marking and catching is about to break out across your plans, leaving your aims unaccomplished.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for smallpox, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet failure in accomplishing your designs.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you have this disease, foretells health and good fortune: if a lover should be so ungallant, as to imagine that his sweetheart is thus afflicted, it is a sign that he will marry a great beauty.