 There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox. They make...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3251868Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edgar March Crookshank - 1889 - 598 pagina’s
...abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the Small Pox. They make parties for this purpose, and when they...a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of Small Pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose,...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 314 pagina’s
...not superstitious, who choose to have them in the legs, or that part of the arm that is concealed. The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose,...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - 462 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose,...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1891 - 508 pagina’s
...abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small pox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that which you offer... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox : they make parties for this purpose,...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox; they make parties for this purpose,...comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best port of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1893 - 630 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox : they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fil'teea or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best... | |
 | George Henry Rohe - 1894 - 606 pagina’s
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose,...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
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