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Incifion, not to go thro’ the fkin ; for in that cafe I 
-have feen it attended with very troublefome confe- 
quences afterwards. After the incifions are made, 
a doffil dipped in the ripe matter of a favourable 
kind of fmall-pox, produced naturally, or by inocu- 
lation, is put into the wound, covered by a diapalma 
plaiifer for twenty-four hours, and then removed, &c. 
I have known in fcarcity of good matter in London, 
that it has been brought from Seven -oaks in Kent, 
and applied with good fuccefs. 
Of above two hundred, that I have advifed before 
the operation, and looked after during it and its con- 
fequences, but one has mifcarried, a foil of the duke 
of Bridgewater, (in whofe family this diftemper had 
been fatal) where the eruption of the fmall-pox was 
defperate, notwithftanding it was perfectly iafe in 
his filler, who had undergone the fame preparations, 
and was inoculated the fame day, and with the fame 
matter ufed for her brother. 
Upon the whole it is wonderful, that this opera- 
tion, which feems fo plainly for the public good, 
fhould, through dread of other diftempers being incul- 
cated with it, and other unreafonable prejudices, be 
flopped from procuring it. 
One thing I have obferved, that though the per- 
fons inoculated were advanced in years, it was equally 
fuccefsful as in younger perfons. 
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