( i66 ) 
Upon a v.ery exad Inquiry I find, that out of 
•^vlio have had the Small Pox in the natural way, in 
this Town and a neighbouring Parilli, fince the Begin- 
ning of Jmw lafl, have died. 
Haver ford Wefi^ 
Feb. z. i72|. 
Ferrot Williams, 
T O S T S C R I F T. 
Jufl as I was concluding my Letter, being lent for 
by a Gentleman about fix Miles off, (where I faw two 
very melancholy Inftances of the Severity of the con- 
fluent Small Pox) he took an occafion to inform me, 
that a near Neighbour of his caus’d his Son, about ten 
Years of Age, near three Weeks ago, to buy (as he 
term’d it) the Small Pox, after the manner I defcribed 
in my firft Letter to Dr. Brady. Carefully viewing 
the Boy, I found him recovering from thediftind: Kind 
of that Diftemper, having not had, as I could perceive, 
above 40 pretty large Puftules, which were then dry- 
ing off. Had I not been fcanted in Time, I queftion 
not but I fliould have been able to have given a great 
many Inftances of the like Nature ; but the hurry I 
have been continually in, ever fince I receiv’d yours, 
muft be my Apology, for that Deficiency, as well as 
the Uncorrednefs of this Letter. 
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