[ 5 l6 3 
and the which commence the infide, pafs over 
the ridge, and are continued to the edges. 
I am indebted to the fame place for the Xllth 
Fig. 1 
The cup-like cavity in this is pretty deep, and ra- 
diated with deep ftrigse : and the fides are marked 
with very diftinCt ridges running lengthways, tho’ 
lometimes interrupted by circular furrows. 
LXXI. An Account of Inoculation by Sir 
Flans Sloane, Bart . given to Mr . Ranby, to 
be publifhed, Anno 1736. Communicated 
by Thomas Birch, D. j 0 . Secret. R. S. 
Read Feb. 19, V Had heard by feveral reports from 
17561 JL China and Guinea, but efpecially 
from Turkey, of the inoculation (as it is called) of 
the fmall-pox ; and took an opportunity, when the 
late Dr. William Sherrard was conful of the Englifh 
Nation at Smyrna, to defire the favour of him, it being 
an operation never praCtifed in thefe parts, nor byfome 
phylicians thought practicable, to inform me of the truth 
and fuccefs of it. In anfwer to which he told me, 
that the conful from Venice refiding there, a phyh- 
cian, Dr. Pylarini, had taken particular notice of that 
practice, and had promifed to fatisfy me about it ; 
which he did by a letter, which was printed in the 
Philofoph. Tranjatt. in 1716, andd believe at Venice. 
This notice lay aflecp till the hon. Mr. Wortely 
Montague, who being ambaflador from England at 
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