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From this account it plainly appears; i. that in 
Africa the operation is performed as it is in Wales, 
by the rubbing in of the matter, and that this is done 
to prevent the fatal confequences too often follow- 
ing the natural infe&ion; 2. that this inoculation is 
generally fuccefsful, notwithftanding the heat of the 
climate, and the bad management of the patients; and 
3. that the origin of it is very ancient, and afcribed to 
the Arabs. 
Before I had received thefe informations from Al- 
giers, I had engaged fome friends fettled in three dif- 
ferent parts of the Eaft Indies, to procure me fome ac- 
counts from thence, upon the fame fubjedh I, at la ft, 
received an anfwer from one of them, who refides at 
Patna, in the province of Behaar, 180 leagues from 
Bengal. 
“ I have fent for feveral phyficians, to be informed 
“ of the things you feem delirous to know about ino- 
<c culation ; the pradtice is hitherto not ufed in this 
“ province ; but having met with a Bengalian 
“ dodtor, he gave me the following account. 
“ Though the firft introduction of the operation at 
“ Bengal is now unknown, it has been in ufe in that 
“ country for a very long time, and is performed in 
“ two different ways. 
“ For the firft, fome of the variolous matter of 
<f a good kind having been gathered is kept for ufe. 
“ When a child is to be inoculated, the fkin between 
<c fome of the fingers is pricked by means of two 
“ fmall needles joined to one another. After having 
“ rubbed in a little of the matter upon the fpot, a cir- 
“ cle is made by means of feveral pundtures, of the 
“ bignefs of a common puftule, and matter is again 
rubbed over it. The-wound is then drefied with 
tc lint; 
