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 - Page 3251868Full view - About this book
| British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of the 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 vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1796 - 468 pages
...to have the small-pox ; they make parties lor this purpose , and when they are met (commonly rif'een or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smull-pox , and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...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 smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to... | |
| Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1816 - 374 pages
...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 nutshell 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 you offer to... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox : they make parlies for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly...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 you offer to... | |
| lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1825 - 352 pages
...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 nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immemediately rips open that you offer... | |
| 1830 - 1098 pages
...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, the old women come with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and ask what vein... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 514 pages
...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 vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 482 pages
...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 vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...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,...fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have... | |
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