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ablutions, required by the dod:rine of ptirlty and im- 
purity, perhaps may check the libidinous paffion 
or when it is at its height, they f-ud themfeves prohi- 
bited enjoyment. To enforce this obfervation might 
lead me into home lingular rcdvxStions. 
5. Inoculation is praclifed at prefent among the 
Greeks, and, notwkhftanding religious fcruples, 
among the Romanifts : with the few, whom I have 
known, it generally fucceeded ; but the numbers will 
not admit of compariibn. I'here are not perhaps 
twenty in a year inoculated. The Timoni family pre- 
tend, that a daughter had been inoculated at fix 
months old, but afterwards acquired the fmall-pox 
in the natural way, and died at twenty- three years. 
The evidence is doubtful. Timoni’s account is incor- 
redf ; his fads are not to be depended on. Pylarini’s 
is more exad;. It was neither Circaflians, Georgians, 
nor Afiatics, who introduced the practice. The firft 
woman was of the Morea 5 her fucceffor was a Bof- 
niac ; they brought it from Theffaly, or the Peio- 
ponnefus, now Morea. They properly fcariiied the 
})atient, commonly on many parts, fometimes on the 
forehead, under the hair, fometimes on the cheeks, 
and on the radius of the arm. A father told me, that 
the old woman not being able, through age, to make 
the incifion on his daughter, with the razor, he per- 
formed that operation. The needle has alfo been ufed. 
The Turks never inoculate : they truft to their fatum. 
Whence the method had its origin feems here un- 
known. A Capuchin friar, whom I often fee, was on a 
miflion in Georgia for above fixteen years ; he has re- 
turned about two years j he is a grave fober man, who 
gives anhiftorical account of the virtues and vices, good 
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