Or leprosy and sprue,

With craw-craw and the Dhobie itch,

Piedra and goundou.

Beriberi and pinta, too,

With cholera and boils,

And dengue and bubonic plague

Or dreadful serpents' coils.

With fevers scarlet, yellow, black

And measles and the mumps,

Green apple-colic, whooping cough,