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Though many have been inoculated be- 
fore the fixth month, I chufe to delay#it~ 
till this time, or any convenient time after, 
unlefs the fubject is big and ftrong. Then, 
befides the greater pliancy, or kindly 
yielding of the folids, the blood has not, 
from the ufe of animal food, acquired an 
inflammatory difpofition, and the hu- 
mours a vicious taint. The firft paflages 
are not, as at a more advanced age, dif- 
ordered by worms or other foulneffes, 
A formal preparation, the juices being 
“all fweet and found, is very little necef- 
fary: And the continual dread and dan- 
ger of the natural infection is early re-_ 
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moved; a matter, in this cafe, both for _ 
parents and children, not leaft to be con- 
fidered. Teething, I know, is made the 
- great objection here; but from this I have 
met with fo little difficulty, that I make 
no fcruple, except in a few circumftan- 
ces, which may be ealily difcovered and 
avoided. 
