. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. contagionspread from Europe to St. Domingo, and three years later entered Mexico,where it caused a fearful destruction of human life, an authorit
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. contagionspread from Europe to St. Domingo, and three years later entered Mexico,where it caused a fearful destruction of human life, an authoritative statementgiving the number of victims at three and a half millions. Thence it ragedwith awful virulence through the New World. Reaching Iceland in 1707, itdestroyed nearly a third of the inhabitants, while Greenland was almost depop-ulated in 1733. In the early part of the reign of George I., Lady Mary Montague, whowas travelling in Turkey, wrote home that the Turks were in the habit of inoc-ulating their children for smallpox, as a result of which they had the disease ina milder and less dangerous form. She was much impressed with the fact andmade the experiment on her son. The result was so satisfactory, that whenshe returned to England she persuaded many of her friends to try criminals sentenced to death at Newgate were promised their liberty ifthey would submit to the operation. They did so, and every one recovered.
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