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80 probably have been attack'd one Time or other, and might have died of in a more advanc'd Age.

Princes being aur'd of the Uefulnes of this Operation, caus'd her own Children to be inoculated. A great Part of the Kingdom follow'd her Example, and ince that Time ten thouand Children, at leat, of Perons of Condition owe in this Manner their Lives to her Majety, and to the Lady Wortley Mountague; and as many of the Fair Sex are oblig'd to them for their Beauty.

a general Calculation, threecore Perons in every hundred have the Small-Pox. Of thee threecore, twenty die of it in the mot favourable Seaon of Life, and as many more wear the diagreeable Remains of it in their Faces o long as they live. Thus, a fifth Part of Mankind either die, or are disfigur'd by this Ditemper. But it does not prove fatal to o much as one, among thoe who are inoculated in Turkey or in Englnd, unles the Patient be infirm, or would have died had not the ment