 The smallpox, 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 September,...  A New Dictionary of the English Language ... - Page 417by Charles Richardson - 1856Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 488 pages
...interesting:— "Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us,...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...ambassador at Constantinople, wrote in the year seventeen hundred and seventeen, in a letter from Turkey, " The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invcutiou of Engrafting, which ia the term they give it. Every year thousands undergo the operation,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...proceedings of the Turkish female practitioners. 'The small-pox, so general and 10 fatal amongst us, is 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... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 pages
...with. Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us,...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1868 - 160 pages
...1717. A propos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us,...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... | |
 | England - 1868 - 792 pages
...tell you a thing that will maku you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general among 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 an t пит.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1868 - 846 pages
...tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general among 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... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - Great Britain - 1869 - 450 pages
...tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general among 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... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that will make you wish yourself here. Thesmall-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely...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... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - Cumberland (England) - 1875 - 348 pages
...British public through the following letter, written from Adrianople by Lady Mary Wortley Montague :— " The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us,...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... | |
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