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Other Informations, I have met with from almofi: all 
parts of the County, confirm me in the Belief of its 
being a very antient and frequent Practice, among the 
common People ; and to prove that this Method is flill 
continued among us, I will give you the relation of an 
elderly Woman, a Midwife, who accidentally came 
into Company, when your Letter was reading, whole 
Name is Joan Jones^ aged feventy Y ears, of good Cre- 
dit, and perfedl: Memory. She folemnly declares, that 
about fifty four Years ago, having then the Small Pox, 
one Margaret Brown (to the bed of her Remem- 
brance then about twelve or thirteen Years of Age) 
bought the Small Pox of her ; that the laid Margaret 
Brovjn was feized with the Small Pox a few Days af- 
terwards ; that the laid Mar gar et Brown had not had 
the Small Pox a lecond time, a twelve-Month ago, 
and Ihe verily believes, that Ihe has not had them fince. 
She farther fays, that llie has known this way of pro- 
curing the Small Pox pradtiled from time to time, above 
fifty Years ; that it has been lately ufed in her Neigh- 
bourhood, and that Ihe knows of but one dying of 
the laid Diftemper, when communicated after the Me- 
thod afbrelaid, which Accident happened withinthefe 
two Years lalt pad ; the Perlbn who milcarried (a 
young Woman about twenty Years of Age) having 
procured the Didemper from a Man then dying of a 
very malignant Small Pox. The above Relation I 
heard the old Woman declare two Days ago, and llie 
was willing to take her Oath of it before Dr. JVUliams^ 
who is a Magidratc. As to what you mention con- 
cerning the manner of communicating the infeedious 
Matter to the Blood, by feraping the Skin thin with a 
Penknife, and fo rubbing in the Matter, that was only 
the Cafe of one particular Gentleman, Mr. Owen, a 
Counfellor at Law, whom I heard fcveral times pofi- 
tively 
