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ftrudive Nature. Wherefore I was willing to run the 
rifque of my Reputation, rather than that the Child- 
ren fliou’d all periih. They were therefore all three 
inoculated the Day before the elded died, af- 
ter having told the Parents that I cou’d not anfvver 
for the Succefs, in Cafe they had already cacch’d the 
Infedion, which would be known if any of them 
fell ill before the Seventh Day. According as we fear’d, 
one of them began on the fecond Day, much after 
the fame Manner with the Elded, and the Small Pox 
appear’d on the third Day, or rather an univerfal 
rednefs all over the Skin, interfperfed with many pur* 
pie fpocs There were none of ihefe fpocs near the 
Places of Inficion, which began to fwcli a little, as 
uliial about the fourth Day, and the Small Pov did 
rife a little more about thofe Places than elfewhere; 
but Nature was too far opprefs’d with the violence 
of the Didemper, and tho’ this Girl continued longer 
than her Brother, and was not delirous as he was, 
yet fhe died on the feventh Day. I did not reckon 
this Child in the Number of thofe who received the 
Didemper by Inoculation; for I thought there was 
diffident Reafon to conclude, that die had taken the 
Infedion before , but of this I mud leave you to 
judge as you pleafe, I only give you a Relation of 
Fads. The other two continued well till the eighth 
Day, when they both fell ill together. The Small f^ox 
came out on the tenth, of a very good Sort, tho’ 
more in Number than feme others had. and they 
both got very eafily thro’ the Didemper without any 
Tndirpofition fince. It was obfcrvable, that the Elder 
of thefe Children, about the time cf the Eruption, 
had many Spots appear’d on him of a deep red Co- 
lour, very much like thofe of the ocher two Children, 
which changed in them to Purples afterwards, which 
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