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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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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 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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History and Pathology of Vaccination, Volume 1

Edgar March Crookshank - Medicine - 1889 - 598 pages
...nutshell 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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The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pages
...nut-shell 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...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 William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 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 History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 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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World-famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence, from the ...

Frank Boott Goodrich - Women - 1891 - 508 pages
...sort of small pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that which you offer to her, with a large needle — which gives you no more pain than a common scratch — and puts into the vein as much matter as will lie upon the head of her needle, and after...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Select Passages from Her Letters

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1892 - 342 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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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...nut-shell full of the matter of the best port 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 matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after...
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Text-book of hygiene

George Henry Rohe - 1894 - 606 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 matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 45

Science - 1894 - 904 pages
...sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you will please to have opened. She immediately rips open the one that you offer to her with a large 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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