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"he sand burned through boots, and a touch of bare hand on lava raised a blister. A short while before sundown the Yaqui went forth to build a campfire, and soon the others came out, heat-dazed, half blinded, with parching throats to allay and hunger that was never satisfied. A little action and a cooling of the air revived them, and when night set in they were comfortable round the campfire.
And all the while she lay watching him with that pitiless, mocking, smile. It was as though the malevolent devil and the tortured soul had suddenly changed places. When the man could speak, he reviled her, in his rasping whisper, with curses that it seemed must blister his tongue.
A grain of opium was given immediately, and repeated every six hours with evident and amazing advantage; afterwards a blister, with chalybeates, bitters, and essential oils, were exhibited, but nothing had such eminent effect in relieving the difficulty of breathing and coldness of her extremities as opium, by the use of which in a few weeks she perfectly regained her health, and has suffered no relapse.
If the little patient be more than one year, say two years old, let the Tela remain on for five hours, and the dry linen rag for five hours more, before the blister, as above recommended, be cut and dressed.
Has the vaccine matter, by its irritative property, produced a mere blister, the fluid of which has the same irritative property? Or does the vaccine matter contain living particles, which have grown and multiplied where they have been planted? The observations of M. Chauveau, extended and confirmed by Dr. Sanderson himself, appear to leave no doubt upon this head.
Yet how could I answer her questions? Before I left her, I was convinced that it was all my fault. I told Aubrey so. "Nonsense!" he said, quite roughly for him. "I think Mary's name for Flora is a good one. She is a little blister." "No," I said, "she is not bad at heart. She is simply an impulsive, uncontrolled little animal, and more frank in her loves than most of us. That's all."
FIFTH TEN MINUTES. "The very devil seems to be in that thing. It burns like as if a sheet of red-hot iron was layin' there." SIXTH TEN MINUTES. "I surely believe that they've made a terrible mistake about that blister, and put in some awful thing that'll kill me if it ain't stopped. I'll swear it's not only eat all the skin off, but it's gone through my ribs, an' is gnawin' at my insides.
Then suddenly she clasped my wrist and looked at the two big, hard, live callouses in my own palm, that some kind of a queer prophetic sentiment had warned me not to let a manicure work on. Also, she saw the pea-thumb that still held a trace of the blister. Intently she looked for a few seconds, first at me and then at Sam.
No, the water did not blister us; it did not cover us with a slimy ooze and confer upon us an atrocious fragrance; it was not very slimy; and I could not discover that we smelt really any worse than we have always smelt since we have been in Palestine. It was only a different kind of smell, but not conspicuous on that account, because we have a great deal of variety in that respect.
And so the journey went on all that day through the blinding, choking dust and scorching heat, which seemed to blister and sting till it was almost unbearable. "Keep it up, my lads," Bart kept on saying. "There's water ahead. Not much farther now." "That mountain gets farther away," said one of the newcomers. "I don't believe we shall ever get there."
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