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She cures rheumatisms, ruptures, and broken shins in men; green-sickness, obstructions, and fits of the mother, in women; the king's evil, chincough, and chilblains, in children: in short, she has cured more people in and about
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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Never was such a massacre of the innocents; teething and chincough and scarlet fever and smallpox ran the round; and little Lillies, and
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Never was such a massacre of the innocents; teething and chincough and scarlet fever and smallpox ran the round; and little Lillies, and
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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For instance, I clean forgot to give, in its proper place, a history of one of my travels, with Benjie in my bosom, in search of a cure for the chincough.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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So I determined within myself, with a strong determination, to behave more sensibly for the future, and think no more about limekilns and coal-pits; but to trust, for Benjie's recovery from the chincough, to a kind Providence, together with Daffy's elixir, and warm blankets.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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For instance, I clean forgot to give, in its proper place, a history of one of my travels, with Benjie in my bosom, in search of a cure for the chincough.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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So I determined within myself, with a strong determination, to behave more sensibly for the future, and think no more about limekilns and coal-pits; but to trust, for Benjie's recovery from the chincough, to a kind Providence, together with Daffy's elixir, and warm blankets.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Our neighbour Mrs Grassie, a widow woman, unco intimate with our wife, and very attentive to Benjie when he had the chincough, had a far-away cousin of the name of Glen, that held out among the howes of the
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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_old_ ones to govern the state: -- she pathetically laments that {34} women are considered as mere domestic animals, fit only for making puddings, pickling cucumbers, or registering cures for the measles and chincough.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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-- he took the chincough, and in more respects than one was not in a good way; so the doctor recommended his mother and me, for the change of air, first to carry him down a coal-pit, and syne to the limekilns at Cousland.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
Gammerstang commented on the word chincough
(noun) - A disease, often epidemic among children; the whooping-cough. From Dutch kind, a child, and kuch, cough. --John Ogilvie's Comprehensive English Dictionary, 1865
April 23, 2018