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I flatter mylelf, that this fhort account of thefc 
matters will not be difagreeable to you; and am, 
with the moft profound refpedt, 
1 » * * K I ‘ f J - M . 4 .«« 
Gentlemen, 
Your moil obedient humble fervant, 
LincolnVInn-Fields, 
Dec. 20, 1732. 
W. Watfon. 
XCVI. ExtraEl of a Letter from Mr. 
Brown, Apothecary , at Salisbury, to Mr. 
Wm. Watfon, F. R. S. concerning the Sue - 
cefs of Inoculation there . 
Rend Dec. 21, 1752,^ AM much obliged to you for the 
and here printed with Sir • , . 1 J r 
Additions: § obfervations, which you were 10 
kind as to fend me, concerning 
the method of inoculating for the fmall-pox, and the 
fubfequent treatment of that diflemper. This I fhould 
not have deferred till now, but that I was defirous 
offending you fome account of our fuccefs therein. 
Since the receipt of your letter, inoculating has 
been very much prattifed here, and with great fuc- 
cefs ; of which the account I now fend may be 
looked upon as pretty authentic. From the 13 of 
Auguft, to the beginning of February, have been in- 
oculated, in this city and neighbourhood, four hun- 
dred and twenty-two perfons. On five or fix of 
thefe, to my knowlege, it had no effedt ; though 
on one the experiment was tried a fecond time. 
Of 
