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any degree of danger to life, than againft kioculsu 
tion. 
In the different countries above-mentioned, inocu- 
lation is performed nearly in the fame manner. The 
Arabs affirmed, that the punctures might be made in- 
differently in any fleffiy part : thofe I have had oc~ 
cafion to examine, have all (a very few excepted) 
had the mark between the thumb and the fore- 
finger. 
Some of the Georgians had been inoculated in the 
fame part, but moft of them on the fore-arm» Of 
the Armenians fome had been inoculated in both 
thighs j but the greateft part (like the Arabs) bore 
the marks upon the hand. Some of the Georgian 
women remembered, that rags of a red colour were 
chofen in preference for the binding up the arm, a 
circum fiance of which I have been able to difcover 
no trace among the Arabs. 
Buying the fmall pox, is likewife the name uni- 
verfally applied to the method of procuring the 
difeafe. There are, it is true, other terms made ufe 
of both in the Arabic and Turkiffi Languages ; and 
at this place, it is principally known to the Chriftians 
by the name of inoculation. 
From the famenefs of the name, as well as from 
the little diverfity obfervable in the manner of per- 
forming the operation, it is probable the pradtice of 
inoculation in thefe countries was originally derived 
from the fame fource : and that it is of confiderablc 
antiquity, can hardly be doubted, if we confider 
the large extent of country over which it is found 
to have fpread, and the obftacles it muff have met 
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