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XXIV. Hijlorical Me??ioirs^ relating to the 
PraSiice of Inoculation for the Small PoXy 
in the Britifli American ProvinceSy parti- 
cularly in New England : AddreJJed to 
John Huxham, M, D. F, R, S, By 
Benjamin Gale, A, M, 
Read May 23, H E fmall pox, by the vigilant 
X execution of the laws fubfifting, in 
the feveral New England colonies, hath never ge- 
nerally prevailed among the inhabitants, excepting in 
Bodon, the capital town, in the province of the 
MafTachufett’s Bay, where it has been epidemical, 
A. D. 1649, 1666, 1678, 1689, 1702, 1721, 
1730, 1752, and at this prefent time, 1764, and 
where the fuccefs attending inoculation, after 
much oppofition, and endeavours ufed to bring the 
fame into difrepute, became inconteftably evident. 
In the provinces of New York, New Jerfey, and 
Penfylvania, the like precautions have not been taken, 
and the fmall pox has prevailed in thofe provinces, 
but more efpecially in the capital towns, and places 
adjacent, once in about fix or feven years, where 
inoculation hath been pradlifed with furprifing fuc- 
cefs, to the prefervation of the lives of many. 
A. D. 1702, the inhabitants of the town of 
Bofton were 6750 fouls, at this time there died 
of the whites 300. A. D. 1721, the number of 
the inhabitants were 10,567, befides thofe moved out 
to avoid the difeafe j the difcumbents were 5,989, 
VoL. LV. C c whereof 
