 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
 | 1897 - 654 páginas
...are 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 bed two... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 páginas
...great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has the 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 to... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 páginas
...and she was the means of introducing this most beneficial practice into England. 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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 396 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,...fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with n nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have... | |
 | 1901 - 662 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 together the old woman comes with a nut shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and... | |
 | Edward Joshua Edwardes - 1902 - 160 páginas
...the great heat is abated. People send to each other 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... | |
 | Edward Joshua Edwardes - 1902 - 178 páginas
...the great heat is abated. People send to each other 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...this purpose, and when 257 they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman conies and must acknowledge : he is as much above being flatt small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that yon offer... | |
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