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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... "
Chambers's papers for the people - Page 14
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 6

History - 1764 - 552 pages
...the operation, every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People fend to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the fmallpox ; they make parties for this purpofe, and when they are met, (commonly fifteen or fixteen...
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Annual Register, Volume 6

Edmund Burke - History - 1764 - 582 pages
...the operation, every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People ftnd to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the fmallpox ; they make parties for this purpofe, and when they are met, (commonly fifteen or fixteen...
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Letters written during her travels in Europe, Asia et Africa

Mary Wortley Montagu - 1779 - 328 pages
...the operation, every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People lend to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the fmall-pox ; they make parties for this purpole, and when they ate met ( commonly fifteen or fixteen...
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Letters of M--y W--y M--e: written during her travels in Europe ..., Volume 1

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1779 - 260 pages
...the operation, every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People fend to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the fmallpox : they make parties for this purpofe, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or fixteen together)...
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M------e: Written During ...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1784 - 240 pages
...the operation, every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People fend to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the fmall-poxj they make parties for this purpofe, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or fixteen together)...
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W-y M-e [i.e. Mary Wortley Montagu ...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1790 - 404 pages
...the operation, every au-, tumn, in the mouth of September, when the great heat is abated. People fend to one another to know if any .of their family has a mind to have the finall-pox : they make parties for this purpofe, and when they are met ( commonly fifteen or fixteen...
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Observations on the Small-pox and Inoculation: To which is Prefixed a ...

Alexander Aberdour - 1791 - 112 pages
...Autumn " in the month of September, when the great " heat is abated. People fend to one another f ' to know if any of their family has a mind " to have the fmall-pox; they make parties for " this purpofe; and when they are met, (com" monly fifteen or fixteen...
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Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e: Written ..., Volumes 1-2

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1796 - 468 pages
...to have the small-pox ; they make parties lor this purpose , and when they are met (commonly rif'een or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smull-pox , and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 53

British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...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 the family has a mind to have the smallpox : they make parties for this purpose ; and, when they are...
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The Philosophy of Medicine: Or, Medical Extracts on the Nature of Health and ...

Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...operation every " autumn here, in the month of September. " When the great heat is abated, people fend to " one another to know if any of their family has...have the Small-pox ; they make parties "* for this purpofe, and when they are met (com" monly fifteen or fixteen together,) the old woman " comes with...
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