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thained down, it is hoped, never more to turn her destruc- 

 tive fury on mankind, and strew the universe with dead 

 bodies, mangled victims, and disconsolate mourners. 



2. Of the inoculated Stnall-Pox, and of its Consequences. 



The Result of these Cases is represented in the annexed 

 Table, taken from Dr. Jurin, 



Hence we find, that of the 474 persons first inoculated 

 in England, nine died, and their deaths were not unjusll}' 

 suspected to have happened in consequence bf inoculation. 



Of the natural small-pox, there usually dies one out of 

 three; the difterence is greatly in favour of the inoculated 

 smaH-po.\: but the question is not how mdividuals benefit, 

 but the public at large. Is the mortality of the small-pox 

 diminished? 



The great and learned Dr. Heberden, in his observations 

 on the increase and decrease of different diseases, observes, 

 *' that he examined careiully the bills of mortality, and 

 comparing the destruction occasioned by the small-pox 

 among our countrymen before and since inoculation, re- 

 luctantly was brought lo this melancholy conclusion, that at 

 the present period the propuriiunal increase of deaths from 

 this disease was &% five io four." 



Dr. Lett?om, whene.xamiijed before the committee of the 



house of commons, stated, that he believed the inoculation 



of thesmalj-pox, instead of beneiiting society, had greatly 



increasfd the number of deaths. About the year 1773, he 



K a had 



