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advanced, at once inoculation itfelf, and ' 
indirectly all who, from a ferious per- 
fuafion of its ufefulnefs, have fhewn them- 
felves induftrious to promoté it. To en- 
courage and recommend a praétice more 
hurtful in its confequences, than the im- 
mediate good of it can be of fervice, which 
could not efcape the obfervation of every 
one, fuppofes want of attention at leaft, 
or fomething worfe. Yet, not fo much to 
obviate a reflection of this kind, becaufe 
I believe undefigned, but for a more im- 
portant reafon, have f thought it demand- 
ed a public animadverfion. 
Iw order:to fatisfy mfelf fully, and o- 
thers, I have not trufted wholly to my. 
own opinion ; but converfed with all who 
have been long and principally concerned 
in inoculating, thro’ an extenfive coun- 
try: And we can affirm, that, of the ino- 
culated, few are dead. ‘Twocor three of 
a hundred arethe utmoft we can recollect: 
Bur, fuppofing them more, it is far thort’ 
of the number that-in ordinary cireum- 
{tances die before twenty.. Nor are we 
miftaken, do we think, when we fay, that 
they 
