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the port, and the lady Maryhad inoculated their foil 
at Conftantinople, and wrote about this practice, and 
the advantages of it, to the court and their acquain- 
tance here, and afterwards brought into England 
their inoculated fon, in perfect health. 
The princefs Anne, now princefs royal of Orange, 
falling ill of the fmall-pox in fuch a dangerous way 
that I very much feared her life, the late queen Ca- 
roline, when princefs of Woles, to fecure her other 
children, and for the common good, Kgged the 
lives of fix condemned criminals, who had not had 
the fmail-pox, in order to try the experiment of ino- 
culation upon them. But Mr. Maitland, who had 
inoculated at Conftantinople, declining for fome rea- 
fons to perform the operation, /left it mould be loft, 
I wrote to Dr. Terry at Endfield, who had pra&ifed 
phyfic in Turky, to know his opinion and observa- 
tions about it ; who returned me this anfwer, that 
he had feen the practice there by the Greeks encou- 
raged by their patriarchs ; and that not one in eight 
hundred had died of that operation. Upon my fpeak- 
ing to Mr. Maitland, he undertook the operation, 
which fucceeded in all but one, who had the mat- 
ter of the fmall-pox put up her nofe, which pro- 
duced no diftemper, but gave great uneafinefs to the 
poor woman. After their recovery, in order to ob- 
viate the objection made by the enemies of this prac- 
tice, that the diftemper produced by it was only the 
chicken-pox, fwine-pox, or petite verole volagere , 
which did not fecure perfons againft having the true 
fmall-pox. Dr. Steigertahl, phyfic'an to the late king, 
and I, joined our purfes to pay one of thofe, who had it 
by inoculation in Newgate, whowasfent to Hertford, 
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