Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SIR, SLOAXE, BY THOMAS MURRAY. (£</ pcrmUsioii of the Roynl C^,- ,,/ flmfh-hni^.) Lady ]\Iary Wortley Montague, Avliose husband was ambassadorto the Porte. She had her son, aged five, inoculated in IVIarch,1717-8. The result was successful, for the child had a mildattack of smallpox. The Princess of Wales, with whom LadyMary was on terms of intimate friendship, took up the preliminar
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SIR, SLOAXE, BY THOMAS MURRAY. (£</ pcrmUsioii of the Roynl C^,- ,,/ flmfh-hni^.) Lady ]\Iary Wortley Montague, Avliose husband was ambassadorto the Porte. She had her son, aged five, inoculated in IVIarch,1717-8. The result was successful, for the child had a mildattack of smallpox. The Princess of Wales, with whom LadyMary was on terms of intimate friendship, took up the preliminary experiments were made first upon three men 72 THE AGE OF VrALPOLE. and three women, condemned criminals whose capital sentencewas remitted on condition that they were inoculated, afterwardsupon six charity children of the parish of St. Jamess, and thenupon live more hospital children. The results in each case were. LADV MARY WOUTLEY ilOXTAGVE, BY JONATHAN RICHAllDSON. (£(/ iiermission of the Right Hon. IIlc Earl of Wharwliffe.) SO satisfactory that in April, 1722, Sergeant-Surgeon Amyand,acting under the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, inoculated thePrincess Amelia, aged eleven, and tlie Princess Caroline, agednine, dauohters of the Prince of Wales. The successful issue ofthese cases enabled the operation to be performed withoutrestriction, though the practice did not come into general ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIP, 1570-1742. 73 use until 1740. It then fiourishod vigorously for manyyears, until its performance was rendered a penal offence bythe Act of 1840, but vaccination was not rendered compul-sory until 1853. We know but little of the condition of the public services The Armyduring the Avars of Marlborough, for it is not until Sergeant- ^dicai^Surgeon Ranby attended the king to the campaign which services,ended at Dettingen that we obtain the account of an eye-witness. The condition of the medical off
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