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able to experience' ; for one wlto has fuffer,^ 

 ed an acute illners, will beal: ficknefs better 

 than another who nevec^ had the like dif-s) 

 temper, iarid be lefs overcome by it. i -'nil 



From fuch reafonlng' it will fedm' to folff 

 low, that the fooner inoculation can be per- 

 formed with fafety, the greater will be th© 

 advantage. I cannot alTert, thiit to this is 

 owing the more than ordinary healthfulnefs 

 of the inoculated with us, and that fo few 

 of them are dead : but if nothing forbid, 

 I always advife it, the child yet unwean- 

 ed J and with me it has always happily and 

 pleafantly fucceeded. Though many have 

 been inoculated before the fixth month, I 

 chufe to delay it till this time, or any conve- 

 nient time after, unlefs the fubje6l is big and 

 ftrong. Then, befides the greater pli- 

 ancy, or kindly yielding of the folids, the 

 blood has not, from the ufe of animal 

 food, acquired an inflammatory difpofition, 

 and the humours a vicious taint. The 

 firft pafTages are not, as at a more advan- 

 ced age, difordered by worms or other foul- 

 neffes. A formal preparation, the juices be- 

 ing all fweet and found, is very little ne- 

 cefTary : and the continual dread and dan- 



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