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V. An Account , or Hiflory, of the Procuring the SMALL 
POX by Incifion-y or Inoculation ; as it has for fome time 
been praclifed at Conffantinople. 
Being the Extract of a Letter from Emanuel Timonius, 
Oxon. & Patav M. D. S. R. S. dated at Conftantinoplc, 
December, 1713. 
Communicated to the Royal Society by John Woodward, M. D. 
Pro!ef. Med. Grefh. andS. R. S. 
T^HE Writer of this ingenious Difcourfe obferves, in 
j| the fir ft place, that the Circaffians , Georgians , and 
other Afiaticks, have introduc’d this Practice of procuring 
the Small-Fox by a fort of Inoculation, for about the fpace 
of forty Years, among the Turks and others at Conftanti- 
nople. 
That altho’ at firft the more prudent were very cautious 
in the ufe of this Pradice ; yet the happy Succefs it has 
been found to have in. thoufands of Su.bje.ds for thefe eight 
Years paft, has now put it out of all fufpicion and doubt; 
fince the Operation having been perform’d on Perfons of all 
Ages, Sexes,, and different Temperaments, and even in the 
worft Conftitution of the Air, yet none have been found 
to die of the Small-Pox ; when at the fame time it was very 
mortal when it feized the Patient the common way, of 
which half the affeded dy’d. This he attefts upon his own 
Obfervation. 
Next he obferves, they that have this Inoculation pra* 
difed upon them, are fubjed to very flight Symptoms, 
feme being fcarce fenfible they are ill or Tick; and what 
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