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te and fully as deftrudtive. In order to avoid the 
“ bad confequences of the natural diforder, many 
tc people have recotarfe to inoculation, which there 
is performed in a very different manner from what 
<c is ufed in our country.' The perfon, who intends 
** to be inoculated, having found out a houfe,. 
“ where the fmall-pox is, and is of a good fort; 
fC goes to the bed of the Tick perfon, if he is old 
“ enough, or, if a child, to one of his relations ; and 
“ fpeaks to him in the following manner ; I am come- 
“ here to buy the Jmall-pox: the anfwer is, buy if you 
“ pleafe. A fum of money is accordingly given, and 
tc one, three, or five puftules (for the number muft 
tc always be an odd one, not exceeding five), extradt- 
tc ed whole, and full. of matter. Thefe are immedi- 
tc ately rubbed upon the ikin of the hand, between 
“ the thumb and fore-finger. This is fufficient to- 
cc communicate the infedtion ; and as foon as it be- 
“ gins to take effedt, the inoculated patient is put to> 
c{ bed, carefully covered with red blankets; and 
*' heating medicines are given him with fome honey 
“ of roles. He is allowed goat’s broth for his nou- 
“ rifhment, and for his drink an infufion of fome 
“ herbs; notwithstanding this treatment, it feldom. 
ct happens that the Small pox procured in this man- 
“ner has any bad confequences; and almoft never 
“• that any body dies of it; but hitherto the propor- 
“ tion of the mortality in the natural, to that in the 
“ artificial way, has not been afeertained. Laftly, 
“ though the time when this pradtice w r as introdu- 
tc ced in Africa be unknown, yet it is there very old,. 
“ and the Arabs are generally thought to have been- 
4£ the inventors of it.” 
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