 ... 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 September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a...  Annual Register - Page 278edited by - 1764Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1912 - 922 pages
...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 small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together),... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 396 pages
...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 small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen... | |
 | Medicine - 1901 - 662 pages
...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 small-pox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met together the old woman comes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send ! thf small pox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 257 met (commonly... | |
 | Edward Joshua Edwardes - Europe - 1902 - 160 pages
...operation, every autumn in the month of September, when 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, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen... | |
 | Edward Joshua Edwardes - Europe - 1902 - 178 pages
...operation, every autumn in the month of September, when 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, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen... | |
 | Anna Bowman Dodd - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1903 - 566 pages
...witty narrator with one of the most amusing of all the scenes described in the letters : " 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,... | |
 | Halil Halid, Çerkesşeyhizade Halil Halit - Turkey - 1903 - 308 pages
...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 parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together)... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1893 - 636 pages
...old women make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, she says : — "People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox. They make parties of fifteen or sixteen for the purpose. . . . The French Ambassador says... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1906 - 580 pages
...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 small-pox : they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen... | |
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