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they are uncommonly heakhy; which 
the {mall proportion that are dead will 
readily fuggeft to every one. Itis impof= 
fible.to-be very, exact ; but it is fafficiently 
evident to-us, that the ftate of the inocu- 
lated is much the reverfe of what is ob- 
(jected. this is true every where, as 
here it. certainly has been hitherto, we are 
led to a very material difcovery ; and 
that which was intended as an unan- 
fwerable objection,..by giving occafion to 
a pretty. careful inquiry, has accidentally. 
furnifhed a new argument in favour of 
inoculation, and a further proof of the 
‘great benefit of it. Long ufe has fhewn 
it to be immediately a real fecurity again{t 
the prevailing malignity of a very mortal 
diitemper ; and the prefent inftance af- 
fords a {trong prefumption that it is, in 
tts confequences, no lefs a prefervative 
from many difeafes incident toa period 
of life the moft fatal to mankind. 
As to the theory in the objection, it is 
more philofophical perhaps to argue thus : 
The fever of the {mall pox, communica- 
ted in the infant-ftate, not only deftroys 
or 
