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364 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 inoculation would come out all right; they chose the most favorable month of the year, and they isolated, not individuals, but parties, for, as the Turks were not a reading people, we can imagine that social aggregations saved them from the ennui of sickness and convalescence. After the practice was introduced among the "politest peoples," some serious disasters came from neglecting 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 indorsed 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 perished 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 1762, aged seventythree. In the cathedral at Litchfield a cenotaph is erected to her memory bearing this inscription:

 "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

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

RELICT OF THEODORE WILLIAM INGE, ESQ.,

AND DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN WROTTELSEY, BART.,

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1789.

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