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of every one, fuppofes want of attention at 

 leaft, or fomething worfe. Yet notfo much 

 to obviate a reflexion of this kind, becaufe 

 I believe undefigned, but. for a more inx-^ 

 portant reafonj ,have I thought, it demanded- 

 a public anima-dveriion. 

 j^ In- order to fatisfy my felf fully and others, 

 I have not trufled wholly to my own opinion ; 

 but converfed with all who have been long 

 and principally concerned in inoculating, 

 thro' an extenfive country : and we can af- 

 firm that of the inoculated, few are dead. 

 Two or three of a hundred are the utmoftt 

 we can recoiled : but fuppofing them more;' 

 it is far fhdrt of the number that in ordinary-- 

 circumftances die before twenty. Nor are- 

 We miftaken, do. we think, when we favj' 

 that they arc uncommonly healthy ; which" 

 the fmall proportion that are dead will rea-^ 

 dily fuggeft to.ev^ery one.; It is impoffible tol 

 be very exadt ; but it is fufficiently evident 

 to us, that the flate of the inoculated is much 

 the reverfe of what is objefted. If 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 unanfwerable objedion, by giving oc- 



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