...with her husband, the British ambassador, she learned of the practice. In 1717 she wrote to a friend, "The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it)." Montagu wrote about attending a party held for this purpose....

...the disease through a form of inoculation. As she explained in a letter to a friend in 1717: Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that...yourself here. The smallpox, so fatal and so general among us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it....

...Jenner in Europe later in the eighteenth century, through use of a serum cultivated in cattle. A propos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that...us, is here entirely harmless, by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women, who make it their business...

...inoculation and wrote to a friend in England as follows: " *The smallpox, so fatal, and so general among us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of...ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set .>f old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September,...

...are utterly unacquainted with. A propos of distempers : I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so fatal and so general among us,, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it....