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Excerpt from: Jessy Allan, The Lame Girl: A Story, Founded on Facts He then went away, and when Jessy heard his last step as he left the room, all her power to act firmly seemed to go with him, and she sunk down in her bed, and wept bitterly. Every painful thing came before her, -- the dreadful operation, -- lameness... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Jessy Allan, The Lame Girl: A Story, Founded on Facts | |
| Creator: | Grace Kennedy (author) | |
| Date: | 1850 | |
| Format: | Book | |
| Publisher: | Robert Carter and Brothers, New York | |
| Source: | Yale University Library | |
| Control no.: | In K382 822g | |
| Keywords: | Accident; Alcohol; Amputees; Assistive Technology; Benevolence; Children; Children's Literature; Crutch; Death; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Education; Employment; Family; Hospitals; Institutions; Media; Medical Professionals; Moral Literature; Nursing; Pain; Parenting; Physical Disability; Poverty; Prosthesis; Religion; Rural Life; Schools; Scotland; Social Welfare & Communities; Sunday School; Work | |
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| Note: | This is the third American edition, from the ninth Edinburgh edition. The book was first published in Scotland circa 1822. |
