chachar

Updated: May 14, 2025

I trust that the preventive blessing of vaccination has or will be extended to a country so liable to be afflicted with this dreadful scourge. A distemper called chachar, much resembling the smallpox, and in its first stages mistaken for it, is not uncommon. It causes an alarm but does not prove mortal, and is probably what we term the chickenpox.

William Marsden - The History of Sumatra: Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And: Manners Of The Native Inhabitants