Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French embassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.

There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am very well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
"I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue for the good of mankind.

But that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them.

Upon this occasion admire the heroism in the heart of your friend, &c." The immediate history of inoculation, so far as Lady Mary is concerned, may here briefly be given.