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Apr 26, 1856

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April 26, 1856 ~ Saturday

26^th I am unwell this morning I am broaken out all over my
body my family think it is the measels but I had the measels
when I was a boy. I spent a part of the day at the office. During
the evening I broak ouat all over with sumthing resembling the
Hives I Just begin to understand what it is that is making me sick
I had an ox die on the 21^st it was supposed that he died with poison he was
mortified while assisting in skining him i scratched my wrist
sufficient to innoculate myself with the poison which is now begining
to affect my system

measles

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April 28, 1856 ~ Monday 28th [FIGURE] I have been a marked victem as an attack for the power of the destroyer from my infancy up to the present day. I have faced Accident, misfortune, & apparently death so many times & in so many shapes & forms from my childhood through life thus far that it has become a proverb with me to say that there has seemed to be two powers constantly watching me & at work with me one to kill & the other to save me thus far the power to save me & preserve my life has prevailed. How long I shall be blessed with this preserving power & care time must determin.

~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3

": I am unwell this morning. I am breaking out all over my body. My family think it is the measels but I had the measels when I was a boy. During the evening I broke out all over something resembling the "hives" I just begin to understand what it is that is making me sick I had an ox die on the 21st. It was supposed that he died with poison. He was mortified. While assisting in skinning him I scratched my hwrist sufficient to innoculate myself with the poison which is now beginning to work.