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municating the (mail pox, I have not hitherto been 
able to learn ; but a native of Mecca, whom I had 
occafion to converfe with this fu miner, allured me, 
that he himfelf had been inoculated in that city. 
It has already been mentioned, that the Turks at 
Bagdat and Mouful make no fcruple to inoculate 
their children. I have feen alfo fome Turkish 
Grangers here, who had been inoculated at Erze- 
roon. Hence it is probable that the Turks, in other 
parts of the Ottoman empire, do not merely, as fa- 
talifts, rejedt inoculation but that other confiderations, 
which have influence in countries where fatalifts are 
ridiculed or anathematized, concur likewife in Turky, 
to oppofe the reception of a practice fo beneficial to 
mankind. The child of a Bafhaw here, was by my 
advice inoculated about eight years ago ; but that is 
the only inf lance I have known among the Turks at 
Aleppo. 
The Jews at this place abfolutely rejedt inoculation ; 
partly from fern pies of a religious kind, and partly 
from the diftrufl: of its fuccefs. At Bagdat, Bafiora, 
and in Paleftine, having acquired a more favourable 
opinion of an operation which they fee fo often per- 
formed with fuccefs, they have got the better of 
other fcruples, and join in the pradtice with their 
neighbours. 
1 have feveral times converfed on this fubjedt with 
the Mufti here, as alfo with fome of the Rabbis ; 
but the theology of both was too abftrufe for me: 
their arguments, fo far as I was able to comprehend 
them, feemed to be no lefs cogent againfi: all 
chirurgical operations, which were attended with 
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