kivrin: Giles with a book (bookish giles (glim))
( Dec. 9th, 2005 03:42 pm)
Quaker merchant in Philadelphia to his sister in Essex, Old England, 1753

“I wonder both thou & the Physician should Blunder so as to take thy being with Child for the Dropsy & Yellow Jaundice; our Physicians in America could hardly have done worse & they would have been heartily Laugh’d at to have been guilty of so great a mistake.”
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