 ... head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed the child was to recover. The first of these young patients was to be cured of the rickets, the second of a rupture.  The history and antiquities of Hawsted - Page 230by sir John Cullum (bart.) - 1784 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Grose - English language - 1787 - 378 pages
...wide open by my ' gardener; whilft the friend of the child, hav' ing firft itripped him naked, pafled him thrice ' through it, always head foremoft. As...was performed, the wounded ' tree was bound up with a packthread; and, as '* the bark healed, the chifd was to recover. ' The firft of the young patients... | |
 | Francis Grose - English language - 1790 - 410 pages
...the child, having firft ftripped him naked, pafictl * him thrice through it, always head forcmoft. As foon * as' the operation was performed, the wounded tree was - ' bound up with a packthread ; and, as the bark healed, * the child was to recover. The firft of the young pa' tients... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 1048 pages
...child, having first stripped him naked, passed him twice through it, always head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was...as the bark healed, the child was to recover. The first of these young patients was to be cared of the rickets, the second of a rupture. About the former... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Suffolk (England) - 1818 - 480 pages
...child, having first stripped him naked, passed him twice through it, always head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was...as the bark healed, the child was to recover. The first of theseyoung patients was to be cured of the rickets, the second of a rupture. About the former... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...child, having first stripped him naked, passed him thrice through it, almost head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was bound up with a packthread ; and, as the bark healed, the child was to recover. The first of the young patients was... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...Child, having first stripped him naked, passed him thrice through it, almost head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was bound up with a packthread ; and as the bark healed the Child was to recover. The first of the young patients was... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...child, having first stripped him naked, passed him tbrice through it, almost head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was bound up with a packthread ; and as the bark healed the child was to recover. The first of the young patients was... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - England - 1858 - 440 pages
...ricketty, and ruptured children were drawn naked thrice through a tree split open for the purpose; the wounded tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed the child was to recover. There were similar superstitions as to creeping through Tolmen, Dolmen, or perforated Druid stones... | |
 | John Glyde - Ballads, English - 1872 - 526 pages
...child, having first stripped him naked, passed him thrice through it, always head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was...and as the bark healed the child was to recover. The first of these young patients was to be cured of the rickets, the second of a rupture. About the former... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - Crosses - 1889 - 140 pages
...of the child, having first stripped him, passed him thrice through it, always head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed the wounded tree was...and as the bark healed the child was to recover. The first of these young patients was to be cured of the rickets, the second of a rupture," similar to... | |
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