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Since the reception of this memoir, Dr. Maty has 
received another letter from the fame gentleman, in 
vvhich he finds fome new fads tending to clear up 
the accounts relating to the pradjce of inoculation 
among the Georgians. Thefe he hopes will not be 
unacceptable, as ^ they come from a perfon equally 
able, by his univerfal knowlege and diftinguifhed 
nation, to procure the befl informations, and willing; 
for the good of mankind, to communicate them in 
the molt obliging and candid manner. 
Conftantlnople, May 17, 1755. 
TAM now to corred the report of the Capuchin 
concerning inoculation in Georgia. One of their 
phyhcians, a mofl ignorant fellow, who lives by his 
profelTion here, avers that, among thofe who follow 
the true Georgian rites, not Romanifts, the pradice 
is cornmon. It has its rife from mere fuperrtition. 
r^r “ That the tradidion and religious be- 
» u prefides over 
that diftemper, that therefore, to fhew their con- 
fidence in him, and to invite him to be propi- 
tious, they take a pox from the Tick perfon, and 
‘‘ by a fcarihcation, they infert it in one in health* 
generally between the fore-finger and thumb It 
“ never miffes its effed, and the patient always re- 
" good-will more 
eftedually, they hang the patient’s bed with red 
cloth or fluff, as a colour mofl agreeable to him. 
“ He has been affiflant to this pradice, and declares 
“ It to be common.” Perhaps the only good effed 
^er known produced by that monfler fuperflition ! 
The Capuchin acknowleges, that it might be amongft 
the 
