 | 1893 - 536 דפים
...1717. This gifted lady, whose husband was ambassador at the Ottoman Court, writes thus in 1718: — "The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. Every year thousands undergo the operation ; and the French... | |
 | William R. Clark - 1995 - 288 דפים
...she wrote a now-famous letter to her friend Sarah Chiswell, from which the following is excerpted: The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. ... I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I... | |
 | Bernard Lewis - 1995 - 456 דפים
...Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business... | |
 | Edward S. Golub - 1997 - 276 דפים
...At any rate, Lady Mary wrote to a friend in England, "I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so...here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting . . ." The "ingrafting" consisted of "opening the pustules of one who had the Small Pox ripe upon them... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 דפים
...to suffer this distemper, instead of our variety, which they are utterly unacquainted with. A propos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing, that...us, is here entirely harmless, by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women, who make it their business... | |
 | Albert Weale - 2002 - 170 דפים
...who was the wife of the ambassador in Constantinople. She wrote in a celebrated letter to a friend: The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it... Every year thousands under go this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they... | |
 | Anita Guerrini - 2003 - 198 דפים
...in an edition of her letters edited by her grandson, is from a contemporary portrait. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business... | |
 | Stephanie True Peters - 2005 - 84 דפים
...process called ingrafting. This letter was England's introduction to inoculation. Lady Montagu wrote: "The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...entirely harmless, by the invention of ingrafting. . . . [An] old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks... | |
 | J. Mann - 2004 - 262 דפים
...famous letter to her friend Mary Chiswell in 1717, she gave a graphic description of the technique: The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the intervention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it... | |
 | Paul A. Offit - 2005 - 250 דפים
...April i, 1717, Lady Montagu wrote a letter to a friend: "The small-pox so fatal and so general among us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of...term they give it. There is a set of old women who perform the operation. People make parties for this purpose, and when they are met, the old woman comes... | |
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The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of... 
