‘PHYSICAL anv LITERARY. 433 
ART. RAR. 
Anfwer to an Objection againft Inoculation; 
by EBENEZER GitcurisT, M.D. Phy- 
fician at Dumfries *. 
No CULATION has been practifed here 
] about five and twenty years, twenty 
almoft conftantly. The fuccefs of it foon 
demonftrated the great advantage and ne- 
ceflity of it, efpecially in a place long re- 
markable for bad {mall-pox. A letter I. 
wrote two or three years ago to a gentle- 
man, who afked my opinion.and advice 
for his children, was a means of intro- _ 
ducing it into a part of the country where 
it had never been tried, While many 
were difpofed to come into it, there were 
not wanting fome, as in all {uch cafes, to 
oppofe it; tho’, in a pretty large trial of 
it, at the time, it had fucceeded to the 
joy and fatisfaGtion of all who wifhed 
well to it, Amongft other objections, one 
Vo... Il. i Se was 
* February 5. 1756, 
