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trates. Their method of doing it was generally 
the fame, which is now commonly ufed in England ; 
whence indruCtions were fent to Geneva, when thev 
firft began to inoculate Yet three perfons were inocu- 
lated in a new manner. Thefe were blider’d flightly, 
by means of a fmall veficatory applied to that part of the 
arm, where the incifion is ufually made. The blider 
occafion'd by this plaider was open’d, and a pledgit 
dipp'd in the pocky matter was applied to the exco- 
riated part. In one indanee the incifion was made only 
in one arm ; the fuccefs of which was the fame, as 
when it had been made in both. Some pocky matter 
was made ufe of, which had been kept three weeks-} 
and fome, that had even been kept four months, 
without any apparent difference in the effects from 
that which was frefh } unlefs it was owing to this, 
that, in one indance, the fmall -pox came out four 
days later than the ufual time. 
The experience, which they have hitherto had in 
Geneva, has l'uggeded to them a conjecture, that the 
incifion ought to be made deeper, where the matter, 
which is ufed, has been kept fome time. All, who 
have yet heen inoculated in Geneva, have recover’d j 
and the far greater nwmbcr of them have had but an. 
inconfiderable number of puftules* 
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