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after Ms kind"; that it is important to liave the system in a 

 healthy condition, which they tested by making a slight wound, 

 and if it healed kindly and normally, they concluded that the in- 

 oculation would come out all right ; they chose the most favor- 

 able month of the year, and they isolated, not individuals, but 

 parties, for, as the Turks were not a reading people, we can im- 

 agine that social aggregations saved them from the ennui of sick- 

 ness and convalescence. After the practice was introduced among 

 the " politest peoples," some serious disasters came from neglect- 

 ing the precautions that had been found absolutely essential to 

 oriental success. As to the " sudden " adoption : in spite of her 

 enthusiastic advocacy, it was not till fifty years after Lady Mary's 

 children were inoculated that the practice became established in 

 her native land, and then not till the Princess of Wales, having 

 had some charity children operated on to satisfy herself of its 

 safety, caused her sons to be inoculated, thus giving that royal 

 sanction so needful there to make a thing " go." Having thus 

 acquired the royal stamp, the College of Physicians formally in- 

 dorsed it. No less than eighteen individuals had died in Lord 

 Petrie's family alone, in the twenty-seven years preceding 1762, 

 and among the royal families of Europe fifteen persons had per- 

 ished within the compass of a single year. 



The Lady Mary resided in Italy for twenty-two of the later 

 years of her life, returning to die of cancer in 17G2, aged seventy- 

 three. In the cathedral at Litchfield a cenotaph is erected to her 

 memory bearing this inscription : 



" SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 

 THE RIGHT HONORABLE 



LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, 



WHO HAPPILY INTRODUCED FROM TURKEY 

 INTO THIS COUNTRY 

 THE SALUTARY ART 

 OF INOCULATING THE SMALLPOX. 

 CONVINCED OF ITS EFFICACY 

 SHE FIRST TRIED IT WITH SUCCESS 

 ON HER OWN CHILDREN 

 AND THEN RECOMMENDED THE PRACTICE OF IT 

 TO HER FELLOW-CITIZENS. 

 THUS BY HER EXAMPLE AND ADVICE 

 WE HAVE SOFTENED THE VIRULENCE 

 AND ESCAPED THE DANGER OF THIS MALIGNANT DISEASE. 

 TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF SUCH BENEVOLENCE 

 AND TO EXPRESS HER GRATITUDE 

 FOR THE BENEFIT SHE HERSELF RECEIVED 

 FROM THIS ALLEVIATING ART, 

 THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY 

 HENRIETTA INGE- 

 RELICT OF THEODORE WILLIAM INGE, ESQ., 

 AND DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN WROTTELSEY, BART., 

 IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1189. 



The monument itself is a mural marble, representing a female 

 figure of Beauty weeping over the ashes of her preserver, supposed 

 to be inclosed in the urn inscribed with M. W. M. intertwined in 



