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would hereafter be very fecure from the InfefUon : 
But as about a Month ago the Parents thought pro- 
per to have a little Boy of theirs inoculated, I re- 
quefted that they would permit the before-mentioned 
Girl to be inoculated likewife. As I defired, they 
were both inoculated, from a Child of my own, 
who had, from Inoculation, had a favourable Kind. 
Upon the tenth Day afrer the Operation the Boy 
fickened, and had the Small Pox, very favourably: 
About the fame Time the Girl grew pale, and loft 
her Appetite. This Indifpofition continued for two 
or three Days, and then (he recovered. 
In both thefe Children, the Incifions, which were 
made only in one of their Arms, were extremely 
fuperlicial, and inflamed in both as ufual : That in 
the Boy produced the variolous Fever and its Atten- 
dants, as is before-mentioned ; but in the Girl occa- 
floned only a Palenefs and Lois of Appetite without 
a Fever, and one variolous Abfccfs in one Part of 
the Incilion, fuch as is fometimes feen in Nurfes, 
and inthofe who have attended Perfons in the Small 
Pox, who have had it themfelves before. This one 
Fuftule was a fufficient Argument of the variolous 
Matter taking Place, and endeavouring to excite the 
ufual Symptoms. 
Dr. Mead in his learned Treatife concerning the 
Small Pox takes Notice of a Woman’s attending her 
Husband, who, a fhort Time before fhe expefted 
her Delivery, was ill of the Small Pox. As fhe had 
undergone the Diftemper herfelf a confiderable Time 
before, fhe felt no Inconvenience therefrom ; but 
upon her Delivery the Child was found dead, and 
its Body covered with the Small Pox, 
Thefe 
