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SIMILARITY OF SCOTCH AND WELSH SUPERSTITIONS

... in the Highlands several years ago related to me the manner it; which she restored one of two children who were ill of the smallpox the olhes-died in consequence (of course) of some informality in administering the iiicav)taiion, &c., and iiot from any ...

GLAMORGANSHIRE

... be about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, rather stout, oval visage, light complexion, slightly pitted with small-pox, and has a wooden leg. This man, being asked his name, said, that, by the father's side, he was named Patter- son, by the ...

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... for attention to science and hospitality to strangers. The accounts from Chili are to January the 6th, at which time the smallpox is said to have been very prevalent at Valparaiso. The Grand Con- vention was still engaged in tinkering upon the constitution; ...

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... made in that quarter. At Bundelcund disease bad been added to famine and the greatest misery prevailed. At CawlI- pore the small-pox had been very fatal among the children. The rivers in Jessore were rising to such a degree as to endanger the indigo crop ...

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... place to a greater extent, and forms hollows, something similar in appearance to the indentations formed on the face by small-pox. This dark grey iron is known to founders as No. 3. The next grauation is No. 2, this contains a larger portion of carbon ...

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... Thomas Leyson. The average number of deaths at Newport, Mon- mouthshire, has of late been much increased bv the prevalence of small-pox. It is much to be lamented that heads of families neglect to have their chitdren vaccinated, as we learn from good anthority ...

WHITEHALL, AUG. 11.'

... Barnard. Alas, how short and uncertain is human happiness! She was taken ill a few days since. the malady proved to be the smallpox, and this morning, at six oc'lock, she breathed her last, to the inexpressible grief of her relatives and a numerous circle ...

Saturday, October 9, 1841

... aggregate, permanent or accidental, the depres- sions of trade, the deficiencies of harvests, blight and murrain, fever and small-pox, great plagues and little plagues, the chimney that smokes and the corn that shoots, all are the work of the Tories. They ...

131 PERI A IJ PARLIAMENT

... ensued, and the House then adjourned. MONDAY. There was not a sufficient number of members present to fonn a House, The small-pox and measles are so prevalent in S ourbridge that children and grown-up persons daily become victims to them. ...

FARM DRAINING

... in which he states that he recently performed the operation on a female, 23 years of age, and who became blind from the. small-pox at the age of three years. He removed the cornea, and substituted by suture that of a young dog, which he sacri- ficed for ...

DEATH OF GEORGE CRANE, ESQ,

... prime of life, and in the enjoyment of perfect health and vigour, was he at- tacked by that truly frightful disease, the small-pox, which in this, as in many other instances, in a very short time proved fatal. What a shock to his friends, and indeed to ...

CARDIFF MECHANICS' INSTITUTION

... most certainly the nurse of feyer. My own opinion is that feyer is a contagious disease, spreading from to person, just as small-pox or scarlet fever does and. like those diseases, haunting over-crowded or ill-drained districts, and all places wherp, from ...