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" ... they make parties for this purpose, 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 vein you please to have opened. "
The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies - Page 263
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...nutshell 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 you offer to her, with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that,...
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Thames-side in the Past: Sketches of Its Literature & Society

Francis Cotterell Hodgson - England - 1913 - 464 pages
...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...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds...
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Recreations of a Physician

Adam Stuart Muir Chisholm - American essays - 1914 - 354 pages
...full of the matter of the best sort of the Smallpox, and asks you what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lay upon the head of the needle, and after that...
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Selected English Letters

Claude Moore Fuess - American letters - 1914 - 136 pages
...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 you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lye upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for Students of ...

Joseph McFarland - Bacteria - 1915 - 844 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature; (1660-1780.).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...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...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds...
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Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland: Vol. I-XXXVI and ...

Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland - 1910 - 558 pages
...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 you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lye upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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Anatolica: By Harry Charles Luke

Sir Harry Luke - Georgia - 1924 - 320 pages
...nut-shell of the matter of the best sort of the small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lye upon the head of her needle, and after that...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...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...needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after binds...
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A Gallery of Eccentrics; Or, A Set of Twelve Originals & Extravagants from ...

Morris Bishop - Biography - 1928 - 282 pages
...nutshell 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 (which gives you no more pain 1Mr. Dallaway has it that Lady Paget and Lady Winchelsea were included in the suite of their lords...
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