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... The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montaguавторы: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837Просмотр фрагмента - Подробнее о книге
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - Страниц: 396
...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...have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer her with a large needle, and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle,... | |
| Edgar March Crookshank - 1889 - Страниц: 638
...old woman comes with 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...a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with a hollow bit... | |
| Edgar March Crookshank - 1889 - Страниц: 598
...old woman comes with 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...a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with a hollow bit... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - Страниц: 462
...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... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - Страниц: 440
...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... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - Страниц: 454
...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... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - Страниц: 310
...old woman comes 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...than a common scratch) and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds up the little wound with a hollow bit... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - Страниц: 314
...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 smallpox, and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle... | |
| Frank Boott Goodrich - 1891 - Страниц: 508
...together — the old woman comes with a nut-shell 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 which you offer to her, with a large needle — which gives you no more pain than a common scratch... | |
| Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - Страниц: 462
...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... | |
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