 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 - Página 3251868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1884 - 966 páginas
...a mind to have the smallpox. "They make parties for this purpose, and when they meet (commonly only fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nutshell full of matter of the best smallpox and asks what vein you please to have opened. "She immediately rips open... | |
 | George Henry Rohé - 1884 - 346 páginas
...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 fifteen or sixteen together—the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter... | |
 | William White - 1885 - 696 páginas
...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... | |
 | William White - 1885 - 740 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Henry Rohé - 1885 - 350 páginas
...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,...or sixteen together — the old woman comes with a nut-ahell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have opened.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 páginas
...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, and, when they are met, the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 páginas
...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 Gosse - 1889 - 462 páginas
...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 Gosse - 1889 - 454 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edgar March Crookshank - 1889 - 638 páginas
...Wortley Montagu, vol. i., p. 184 New Edition. 1887. r 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... | |
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