396 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XXX. 



Anfwer to an Obje^ion againft Inoculation i 

 ^;?Ebenezer Gilchrist M. D. Phyfi- 

 cian at Dumfries *. 



INOCULATION has been praftifed here a- 

 bout five and twenty years, twenty al- 

 moft conftantly. Thp- fuccefsof it foon de- 

 monftrated the great advantage and neceflity 

 of it, efpecially in a place long remarkable 

 for bad fmall-pox. A letter I wrote two or 

 three years ago to a Gentleman, who afked 

 my opinion and advice for his children, was 

 a means of introducing 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 fuch 

 cafes, to oppofe it ; tho' in a pretty large 

 trial of it, at the time, it had fucceeded to 

 the joy and fatisfadlion of all who wifhed 

 well to it. Amongft other objections, one was 

 more pofitively infifted on ; which, indeed, 

 were it as well founded as it is fpecious, 



would 



# February 5. 1756, 



