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dent, and served to confirm the doctrines which Dr 

 Currie had so ably supported. At the same time, 

 he transmitted to l)r (Vrrie those original papers to 

 which he formerly alluded, as having been recovered 

 from the London Medical Society. In the letter ac- 

 companying these communications, he observes, " The 

 paper on small-pox will surprize you. We were born, 

 it appears, to think and act alike, in separate hemi- 

 spheres, and at the distance of thirty years. The co- 

 incidence is very striking." 



Dr Currie, on the 18th of April 1799, thus writes 

 to Dr Wright : 



" My dear Sik, — If I have not sooner acknowledged 

 your most valuable and obliging communications, this has 

 arisen from the wish I had to write to you much at large on 

 the several points to which they refer ; and such have been 

 my avocations, that hitherto it has not been in my power to 

 find the necessary leisure. Even at the present moment I 

 must, in a great measure, confine myself to an assurance of 

 the safety of the papers, and to a sincere expression of my 

 gratitude for the valuable time you have devoted to my ser- 

 vice. 



" As yet my booksellers have not signified to me in any 

 other than general terms, that another edition of my book 

 will be required ; and perhaps they may be mistaken in sup- 

 posing it would be called for in the course of the present 

 year. I shall not, however, go again into the press, without 

 availing myself of the communications you have already 

 made me ; and you may soon expect a long letter from me 

 on those topics in which we are mutually and moiv especially 

 interested, with a view to your farther opinions. It shall be 

 my endeavour to point out the coincidence of our experience, 



