...the Brahamins from a very remote antiquity. In 1717 Lady Mary wrote from Adrianople : "The small pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless, by the invention of engrafting, " which is the term they give it. Every year thousands undergo the operation. There is...

...Adrianople, April 1st, OS 1717: [142] Apropos 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....

...roughly in the way-faring, you find yourself Smallpox in History Adrianople, April 1, (OS), 1717. APROPOS of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that...The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is entirely harmless, by the intervention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. * * * People...

...1717. This gifted lady, whose husband was ambassador at the Ottoman Court, writes thus in 1718: — "The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. Every year thousands undergo the operation ; and the French...

...Adrianople, 1 April 1717 . . . Apropos of distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that 1 am sure will make you wish yourself here. The smallpox, so...us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old women 5 who make it their business...

...she wrote a now-famous letter to her friend Sarah Chiswell, from which the following is excerpted: The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. ... I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I...

...At any rate, Lady Mary wrote to a friend in England, "I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish yourself here. The small-pox, so...here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting . . ." The "ingrafting" consisted of "opening the pustules of one who had the Small Pox ripe upon them...

...to suffer this distemper, instead of our variety, which they are utterly unacquainted with. 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...

...who was the wife of the ambassador in Constantinople. She wrote in a celebrated letter to a friend: The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it... Every year thousands under go this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they...

...in an edition of her letters edited by her grandson, is from a contemporary portrait. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst 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...