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 292 INNSPRUCK INOWRACLAW erected by Maria Theresa. The Franciscan church (HofkircJie) contains one of the most splendid monuments of Europe, that of Maxi- milian I. (who ordered its construction, with a sepulchre for his own remains, but is buried in Neustadt, near Vienna). On each side of the aisle stands a row of tall figures, 28 in num- ber, representing principally the most distin- guished members of the house of Austria. The sarcophagus is ornamented with 24 representa- tions of the principal political and domestic events in the life of Maximilian, sculptured in alto rilievo by Alexander Colin of Mechlin. In the same church is the Silver Lady chapel, so called after a silver statue of the Virgin, con- taining the mausoleums of the archduke Ferdi- nand and of his wife Philippine, which are also attributed to the genius of Colin, whose own tomb, said to be the work of his own hands, is in the cemetery of Innspruck. The tomb of Andreas Hofer is in this chapel. In this church Christina of Sweden made her pub- lic renunciation of Lutheranism. There are altogether 11 churches, among which are the Capuchin church with the penitential cell of Maximilian II., and the St. James church, notice- able for its rich decorations. Among the other public buildings are the palace built for Maria Theresa, with an equestrian statue of Archduke Leopold V. in the courtyard, and a large edi- fice in the city square (Stadtplatz), once the residence of the counts of Tyrol, now a private dwelling, with a famous oriel window, covered with a golden roof (das goldene Dachl), built in the 15th century, at a cost of 30,000 ducats. The chief educational establishment is the Ro- man Catholic university, which was founded in 1 672 by the emperor Leopold I. In 1 873 it had 46 professors and 663 students, fully one third of whom are under the theological faculty, the professors of which are Jesuits. In conse- quence of the remonstrance of the liberal party in Austria and of a majority of the professors of the university against the privileged posi- tion of the Jesuits, the minister of public in- struction in July, 1872, deprived the theologi- cal faculty of the right of electing a member of the academic senate, and, alternately with the other faculties, the rector of the university. In 1873 the right was restored to the Jesuits, pro- vided the professors should individually qualify for their office like the professors of the other faculties. The library of the university has about 50,000 volumes. There are also a gym- nasium, a commercial school, and a national museum founded in 1823, with rich collections of antiquities and works of art. The principal manufactures of the town are silks, ribbons, gloves, calico, and glass. In 1234 Innspruck was clothed with the privileges of a town by Otho I., duke of Meran. It subsequently be- came the residence of the Austrian archdukes, and its most prosperous period was in the early part of the 17th century, when Ferdi- nand II. held his brilliant court there. It was taken by the Bavarians in 1703, but was soon recovered by the Austrians. In 1809 it suf- fered much during the war in Tyrol. After the second revolutionary outbreak in Vienna in 1848, the emperor Ferdinand fled to Inn- spruck, and resided there for several months. WO, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Cad- mus and Ilarmonia. By command of Juno, Athamas, king of Orchomenus, had married Nephele, by whom he was father of Phrixus and Ilelle; but he was also secretly wedded to Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes. Hating the children of her rival, Ino persuaded her husband that the gods were angry with him, and could only be appeased by the sacri- fice of Phrixus and Helle. Nephele rescued the children, and Mercury punished Ino by giving her the young Bacchus to nurse, which brought down on her and her husband the an- ger of Juno. Athamas was driven mad, and in this state killed his son Learchus ; while Ino, flying for safety with Melicertes in her arms, leaped into the sea. Neptune changed her into a sea goddess, giving her the name of Leucothea, while Melicertes became Palsemon. There are wide variations in the traditions concerning Ino. ^Eschylus, Sophocles, Eu- ripides, and AchaDiis have used her story in their tragedies. INOCl'LATIOiy, the transmission of a disease from one individual to another by means of a morbific matter taken from the body of the first and introduced into the system of the sec- ond. The morbific matter may be introduced directly into the tissues by means of an incision or puncture in the skin, or it may be applied in a fluid form to an abraded surface, from which it is absorbed by the skin itself. There are only certain diseases which are communicable in this way, the simple inflammations and their products not having the power to breed a sim- ilar malady in a healthy person. But there are particular specific diseases, such as smallpox, cowpox, primary syphilitic and gonorrhceal in- flammations, and the like, the exudations of which are charged with a peculiar organic virus which when introduced into the system of another individual gives rise to a disorder like that by which it was originally produced. Vac- cination is simply the inoculation of vaccina or cowpox; and the term inoculation is some- times restricted in common parlance to the intentional communication, by this means, of smallpox in its original form. The inocula- tion of smallpox was early found to mitigate the severity of the disease; but vaccination was afterward substituted for it (see JENNER), because vaccina, though milder still, was dis- covered to be an effectual protection against smallpox itself. INOWRACLAW, or Jnng-Breslan, a town of Prussia, in the province of Posen, 24 m. S. E. of Bromberg; pop. in 1872, 7,429, including over 3,000 Jews. It contains a Roman Catholic and a Protestant church, a synagogue, and large saltpetre works. An extensive deposit of mineral salt was discovered there in 1871.