Sentences with word «dairymaid»

Late in the 17th century, 17 - year - old Molly Walsh, an English dairymaid accidentally spilled a bucket of milk and stood trial for stealing it.

The English physician knew that dairymaids who contracted cowpox, a comparatively mild skin disease, became immune to the much deadlier smallpox, which at the time killed 400,000 Europeans a year.

If you work on vaccines you know the story of British physician Edward Jenner, whose observation that dairymaids infected with cowpox made them resistant to the far more virulent smallpox virus led him to develop, in 1796, the first experimental vaccine.

Best of all, Molly Bannaky, the story of an English dairymaid and the grandson of an African king, is true.

I know that breastfeeding is one of the most natural things in the world and I hope to be able to feed my daughter this way, but I'm afraid the way babies suck on the nipple does put me in mind of a dairymaid milking a cow — and I can't help worrying that it is going to hurt.

I know that breastfeeding is one of the most natural things in the world and I hope to be able to feed my daughter this way, but I'm afraid the way babies suck on the nipple does put me in mind of a dairymaid milking a cow — and I can't help worrying that it is going to hurt.

Two centuries ago Edward Jenner administered the first scientifically developed vaccine, injecting fluid from a dairymaid's skin lesion into an 8 - year - old boy.

Jenner scraped «matter» taken from a cowpox sore on a dairymaid's hand into the skin of 8 - year - old James Phipps, the son of his occasional gardener, and then repeatedly tried to infect him with smallpox.

Both as a dairymaid and prospective princess, Julia Stiles brings an element of believability to her role that is complemented by Luke Mably's earnest portrayal of the errant heir.