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the Diflemper in the ordinary way, and. did very 
well. 
Some of thole who have been inoculated, that are 
grown up, have afterwards attended others in the Small 
Pox, and it has often happen’d. that in Families where 
feme Children have been inoculated, others have been 
afterwards feized in the natural way, and they have 
lain together in the fame bed all the Time; but we 
have not yet found, that ever any had the Dillem' 
per twice ; neither is there any Reafon to fuppofe it 
polTible, there being no difference that can be obfer- 
ved, betwixt the Natural and Artificial Sort, (if we 
may be allow’d to call them lo) but only that in the 
latter the Pullules are commonly fewer in Number, 
and all the reft of the Symptoms are in the fame pro- 
portion mote favourable. There is one Oblervatioa 
which I have made, tho’ I wou’d not yet lay any great 
ftrefs upon it, that in Families where any have been 
inoculated, thole Who have been afterwards Icized, ne^ 
ver had an ill fort of Small PoXy but always recover- 
ed very well. 
Thus, Sir, I have given you a Ihort and plain Ac- 
count of what has occurr’d to me concerning this Me- 
thod of Inoculation: ’tis not any pains or care I have 
taken in waiting this Letter, chat can recommend it, 
for I have been folicitous about nothings but Truth, 
my defjgn being only to give you- a Ihorc Hiftory of 
the Diftemper raffed by Inoculation, fo far as 1 have 
obferved it. The Number might perhaps have been 
greater, if I wou’d have prefs’d it ; but I only took 
fuch as defired it of themlelves, being cautious of 
perfwading any Body to it, becaufe I had but little 
Authority hereabouts to fupporc me ; tho’ I ought 
to aciuiowJedge the kindnefs of- many- of my Friends, 
who being convinced, that this Method would be 
of 
