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or (mail ; but I commonly found, that, when they 
were made pretty large, the quantity of Matter dif- 
charged afterwards at thofe Places was greater j and 
the more plentiful that Difcharge, the more eafy the 
reft of the Symptoms generally are, and they are 
alfo by this means the beft fecured fromany inconveni- 
ence, which might follow, after the Small Pox are 
gone off. 
Ac firft I colleded fbme of the Matter from the 
Puftules of one, who had the Small Pox of the natu- 
ral Sort, into a fliell or Vial, and infufed two or 
three drops of it into the Wound; but finding it to 
be very rroublefome and difficult to get any quanta 
ly of the Matter, and obferving alfo, that the Icaft 
imaginable will be fufficient for the Purpofe, I com- 
monly take fmali Pledgets of Cotton, and ripping the 
Puftules, when they are ripe, with the point of a Lan* 
cet, roll the Pledgets over them, till they have im- 
bibed fome of the Moifture. I put one of thefe up- 
on each Wound, and cover it with any common Plaif- 
fter till the next Day, when I commonly take away 
both the Cotton and the Plaifter, leaving the Wound 
to it felf, only covering it with a flight linnen Roller, 
to defend it from the Air. I have fometimes rubb’d 
the Pledget only once over the Wound, without 
binding it on, which I found to anfwer the End as 
well 5 and from fome other Obfervations I have made, 
I have been furprized to fee the Small Pox produ- 
ced this way, when I was very well aflured, the quan- 
tity of Matter received into the Veflels, cou’d not 
amount to the hundredth part of a Grain. 
The Perfons inoculated have not been confin’d to 
any Regimen, but only to be kept moderately warm; 
and thole, w’ho were grown up, to live very tempe- 
rate and regular, to keep their Minds eafy and com- 
F pofed, 
