fly-blister

“Bill followed the Steward, and in a few minutes came back to quarters ornamented with a fly-blister as big as a dollar under his left ear.”

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

“She went to a doctor for the first time in her life and was given a fly-blister and some drugs to put in whiskey.”

The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01

“Ice to the abdomen, calomel pushed to free purgation, a small fly-blister below the ensiform cartilage, nutritious enemata, with stimulants in the form of whiskey or champagne, and hypodermics of strychnine, give a more hopeful prospect than would operation.”

Appendicitis

“Out through the autumnal haze, across the intervening plateau, over the low foot-hills, and up the Medicine Bow Range, on and ever onward sped the timid, grieved and broken-hearted pup, accumulating with wonderful eagerness the intervening distance between himself and the cruel promoter of the fly-blister and lingering death.”

Remarks

“A noseless Cupid or a Jupiter with an eye out or a Venus with a fly-blister on her breast, are not attractive features in a picture.”

The Innocents Abroad

“I love my native air, but it does not love me; and the end of this delightful period was a cold, a fly-blister, and a migration by Strathairdle and Glenshee to the Castleton of”

Essays in the Art of Writing

“I wanted her to lemme put a fly-blister on to her head, too, but she won't do nothin '. ”

Lovey Mary

“Send for a barber; and also for a fresh fly-blister, four inches by nine. ”

Off-Hand Sketches