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 (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the... The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - עמוד 251מאת Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 416 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 דפים
...women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn. ...The old woman comes with 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 her with a large needle.... | |
| Charles De Paolo - 2006 - 269 דפים
...have an engrafting session. With fifteen or sixteen recipients gathered together, one woman displays "a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox," the shell containing serum removed from ripe blisters. The old woman, likely immune to the disease... | |
| Dorothy H. Crawford - 2007 - 266 דפים
...for this purpose, and when 170 they are met (commonly 15 or 16 together), the old woman comes •with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of...have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer her, -with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch) and puts into the vein,... | |
| T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 דפים
...when the great heat is abated . . . They make parties for the purpose . . . the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have open'd. She immediately rips open that you offer to her, with a large needle... | |
| Arthur Allen - 2007 - 556 דפים
...practice she had observed in Constantinople was the very essence of simplicity. "The old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox and asks what veins you please to have open'd," she wrote to a friend in 1717. Then the woman opened a cut and "puts... | |
| Peter N. Stearns - 2008 - 433 דפים
...this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of...that you offer to her, with a large needle (which give you no more pain that a common scratch) and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon... | |
| 1912 - 652 דפים
...small pox, and asks what veins you please to have opeue;!. She immediately rips open that you offer her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain...a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and afterward binds up the little wound with a hollow... | |
| 1882 - 352 דפים
...this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have open'd. She immediately rips open that you offer to her, with a large needle (which gives you no more... | |
| Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 דפים
...this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman comes with 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 her with a large needle... | |
| 1928 - 634 דפים
...this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman conies with 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 her with a large needle... | |
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