 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
 | George Paston - 1907 - 640 páginas
...upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell. . . . The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health till the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds... | |
 | Emily Morse] [Symonds - 1907 - 630 páginas
...upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell. . . . The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health till the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds... | |
 | Joseph Rodgers - 1908 - 488 páginas
...know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose ; when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together),...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... | |
 | 1908 - 510 páginas
...the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their party has a mind to have the smallpox : they make parties for this purpose,...fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nutshellful of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have opened.... | |
 | 1910 - 832 páginas
...great heat is abated. People send to cne another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox; 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... | |
 | Grace Taber Hallock, Clair Elsmere Turner - 1926 - 28 páginas
...great heat has abated. People send to one another to know if any of their families has a mind to have the smallpox. They make parties for this purpose,...a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that which you offer... | |
 | Morris Bishop - 1928 - 282 páginas
...perform the operation . . . 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 nutshell 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... | |
 | George Parrish - 1928 - 272 páginas
...great heat has abated. People send to one another to know if any of their families has a mind to have the smallpox. They make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly 15 or 16 together), the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox,... | |
 | 1926 - 984 páginas
...term they give it. * * * People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and...they are met — commonly fifteen or sixteen together — an old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what... | |
 | Margaret Alic - 1986 - 252 páginas
...send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox: they make partics for this purpose, and when they are met )commonly...a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox jpus from a victim of a mild attack'(, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She... | |
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