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Rh been made upon him. Beides, no one is disfigur'd, no one has the Small-Pox a econd Time, if the Inoculation was perfect. 'Tis therefore certain, that had the Lady of ome French Ambaador brought this Secret from Contantinople to Paris, the Nation would have been for ever oblig'd to her. Then the Duke de Villequier, Father to the Duke d'Aumont, who enjoys the mot vigorous Contitution, and is the healthiet Man in France, would not have been cut off in the Flower of his Age.

Prince of Soubie, happy in the finet Fluh of Health, would not have been natch'd away at five and twenty; nor the Dauphin, Grandfather to Lewis the Fifteenth, have been laid in his Grave in his fiftieth Year. Twenty thouand Perons whom the Small-Pox wept away at Paris in 1723, would have been alive at this Time. But are not the French fond of Life, and is Beauty o inconiderable an Advantage as to be diregarded by the Ladies! It mut be confes'd that we are an odd kind of People. Perhaps our Nation will imitate, ten Years Rh