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Since the introduction of the practice of inoculation the 
virulence of one of thefe:fcourges of mankind has confider- 
ably abated; and nothing feems requifite to be added on this 
head to the cautions alteady obferved except a perfeverance 
in the practice, and a more extenfive diffufion of its benefits 
by the benevolent activity of the phyficians and furgeons of 
the feveral hofpitals and difpenfaries throughout the kingdom. 
In England fome medical affociations have been formed for 
the purpofe of inoculating all the children in certain: diftriéts 
who have not had the fmall-pox; and the advantage accru- 
ing from thefe exertions has furpafled expectation, and almoft 
furpaffes belief. Similar affociations in this country require 
only to be announced to be patronized *. 
Bur the havock committed by the venereal difeafe is truly 
deplorable. Every fecond child committed to the. foundling- 
eradle in Dublin inherits this fhocking malady, and every one 
of thefe forfeits its life for the crime of its parents. I have 
been well informed that not a fingle infant tainted with this. 
diforder at its birth has been ever faved in the foundling hof- 
pital of Dublin, except when given to a nurfe undergoing a. 
courfe of medicine; a circumftance which can very rarely 
happen. 
; Is: 
* By the exertions of a fociety inftituted by Dr. Haygarth, the mortality of 
the fmall-pox in Chefter was diminifhed in four years four-fifths. 
Yet it is computed that even ftill the wafte of human. lives by the fmall-pox 
in Great Britain and Ireland, amounts annually to /fty-five thoufand five hundred: 
and fifty! See Howlett’s Examination. of Dr..Price’s Eflay on. Population. 
