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is valued by the Fair, it never leaves any Scars or Pits in 
the Face. 
The Method of the Operation is thus. Choice being 
made of a proper Contagion, the Matter of the Pu' ules 
is to be communicated to the Perfon propofed to take die 
Infection ; whence it has, metaphorically, the name of Infl- 
tion or Inoculation. For this purpofe they make choice of 
fome Boy, or young Lad, of a found healthy Tempera- 
ment, that is feized with the common Small- Pox (of the 
diftindf, not Flux fort,) on the twelfth or thirteenth day from 
the beginning of his Sicknefs ; they with a Needle prick 
the Tubercles (chiefly thofe on the Shins and Hams) and 
prefs out the Matter coming from them into fome conve- 
nient Veffel of Glafs, or the like, to receive it ; it is con- 
venient to walh and clean the Veffel firft with warm .Wa- 
ter : A convenient quantity of this Matter being thus col- 
lected, is to be flop’d clofe, and kept warm in the Bolom 
of the Perfon that carries it, and, as foon as may be, 
brought to the place of the expecting future Patient. 
The Patient therefore being in a warm Chamber, the 
Operator is to make fevcral little Wounds with a Needle, 
in one, two or more places of the Skin, till fome drops of 
Blood follow, and immediately drop out fome drops of the 
Matter in the Glafs, and mix it well with the Blood iflu- 
ing out ; one drop of the Matter is (ufficient for each place 
prick’d. Thefe Pundtures are made indifferently in any of 
the fleiliy Parts, but fucceed beff in the Mufcles of the 
Arm or Radius. The Needle is to be a three-edg’d Surgeon’s 
Needle i) it may likewife be perform’d with a Lancet: The 
cuftom is to run the Needle trattfveife, and rip up the Skin 
a little, that there may be a convenient dividing of the 
Part, and the mixing of the Matter with the Blood more 
eafily perform’d ; which is done, either with a blunt Stile, 
or an Ear-picker : The Wound is cover’d with half a Wal- 
nut- fliell, or the like Concave Veffel, and bound over, that 
the Matter be not rub’d off by the Garments } which is all 
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