...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...

...Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. 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...

...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...

...process called ingrafting. This letter was England's introduction to inoculation. Lady Montagu wrote: "The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us,...entirely harmless, by the invention of ingrafting. . . . [An] old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks...

...famous letter to her friend Mary Chiswell in 1717, she gave a graphic description of the technique: The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the intervention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it...

...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....