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] t p ns well to remember, in the midst of the dormer Centenary celebrations, that Kiighmd also owes something to a woman in this matter ot the successful stamping out ot smallpox, says tiie •’Westminster Gazette." Nearly thirty years betore hdwartl dernier was Imrii l.aily Mary Montagu had adopted the Turkish method of inoculating her children against smallpox, a practice she had seen proved efficacious during the years she lived in Constantinople, where hei husband was Ambassador. And though it was not calf lymph that was used in Turkey, there can he little doubt that the ambassadorial temerity became a considerable 1 actor in moulding public opinion when IJr Jointers vaccine discovery made the time opportune for a big campaign towards compulsory preventive measures against the decimating disease.