probably have been attack'd one Time or other, and might have died of in a more advanc'd Age.
The Princeſs being aſſur'd of the Uſefulneſs of this Operation, caus'd her own Children to be inoculated. A great Part of the Kingdom follow'd her Example, and ſince that Time ten thouſand Children, at leaſt, of Perſons of Condition owe in this Manner their Lives to her Majeſty, and to the Lady Wortley Mountague; and as many of the Fair Sex are oblig'd to them for their Beauty.
Upon a general Calculation, threeſcore Perſons in every hundred have the Small-Pox. Of theſe threeſcore, twenty die of it in the moſt favourable Seaſon of Life, and as many more wear the diſagreeable Remains of it in their Faces ſo long as they live. Thus, a fifth Part of Mankind either die, or are disfigur'd by this Diſtemper. But it does not prove fatal to ſo much as one, among thoſe who are inoculated in Turkey or in Englnd, unleſs the Patient be infirm, or would have died had not the Experi-
