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" Every year thousands undergo this operation ; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. "
Text-book of hygiene - Page 326
by George Henry Rohe - 1894
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Volume 8

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 964 pages
...give it. Every year, thousands undergo the operation. There is no example of any one who has died of it, and you may believe that I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son." Four years afterwards, she had her...
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World-famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence, from the ...

Frank Boott Goodrich - Women - 1891 - 508 pages
...thousands undergo this operation ; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters...any one that has died in it ; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it upon my dear little...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature: 1660-1780

Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
.... . . Every year thousands undergo this operation, and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries." In many respects, though hard and mannish in temper, Lady Mary was eminent for width of view and for...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
.... . . Every year thousands undergo this operation, and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries." In many respects, though hard and mannish in temper, Lady Mary was eminent for width of view and for...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Select Passages from Her Letters

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1892 - 342 pages
...to it. Every year thousands undergo this operation : and the French Embassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries." If Lady Louisa Stuart's account of the grudging reception of inoculation by the medical profession...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...Every year thousands undergo this operation ; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the...any one that has died in it ; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son....
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Women of Letters, Volume 1

Gertrude Townshend Mayer - Literary Criticism - 1894 - 376 pages
...small-pox. They make parties of fifteen or sixteen for the purpose. . . . The French Ambassador says that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion,...There is no example of any one that has died in it. You may believe that I am very well satisfied of the safety of the experiment since I intend to try...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 45

Science - 1894 - 902 pages
...great relief of it. Every year thousands undergo this operation, and the French ambassador says that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as...in other countries. There is no example of any one has died in it, and you may well believe I am very well satisfied of the safety of the experiment since...
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A History of Epidemics in Britain ...

Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1894 - 906 pages
...engrafting or transplanting the smallpox ; the French ambassador had said in pleasantry to her : " They take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries." According to her information, there was a set of old women who made it their business to perform the...
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A History of Epidemics in Britain: From the extinction of plague to the ...

Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1894 - 908 pages
...of engrafting or transplanting the smallpox ; the French ambassador had said in pleasantry to her: "They take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries." According to her information, there was a set of old women who made it their business to perform the...
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