ON THE SMALL-POX. 3®T 



period, he inoculated nineteen other persons, and every one oi 

 these had a fever and eruption of pustules at a proper time ; 

 but the two children from whom the matter had been taken 

 did not sicken as was expected, and, on the eleventh day, the 

 inflammation upon their arms was considerably abated ; and 

 two or three clays after this there remained nothing but a dry 

 scab. 



In conformity to an opinion hitherto generally adopted, 

 our author now ventured to assure the parents, that their 

 children were secure from future infection of the small-pox ; 

 but they having insisted on their being again inoculated, a 

 second incision was made in the arms of each. A fresh in- 

 flammation succeeded around the places of incision, and went 

 on in the same manner it had done before, till about the ninth 

 or tenth day, when the patients sickened, and had a smart 

 fever, during three days, after which appeared a considerable 

 number of variolous pustules. 



