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SMALL POX INOCULATED I

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NEW ENGLAND, Upon

Sorts of Perfons, Whites, Blacks,

all

and of

Ages and Gonftitutions,

all

fome Account of the

With

Infection

in

Way, and

the

Nature of the

Natural and Inoculated

their different Effects

on Human-

Bodies.

With fome

fhort

experienced in Humbly dedicated

By

to her

Directions this

Method of

to the

Un-

Practice.

Royal Highnefs thePrincefs of Wale i3

Zabdiel

BoylSlon,

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T O Her

Royal Highness

the PRINCESS

of

WALES.

Madam,

i^^T

with the deepeft LJ| Senfe of humble Graft

is

titude that I

am

al-

lowed

H

dedication.

lowed to

lay thefe Papers at

Feet of Your Royal Highnefs for Prote&ion.

the

The Countenance which Your Royal Highnefs hath given to the Practice of Inoculation^ a noble Inftance of Your Royal Highnefs s fuperior Judgment and Pac

rental Tendernefs ; and the Succefs with which it

hath been attended in Your Royal Family, is alone fufficient to recommend it to the World \ and may be juftly

efteem'd

as

a plain Tefti-

Dedication,

in

Teftimony of divine Providence in Favour both of the Lawfulnefs and great Advantage of this Method:

And jects

own

all

his

muft

Majeftys Sub-

under

GOD,

Obligations to Royal Highnefs, for

their

Your conducing

fo

many

valua-

ble Lives, the hopes and Glory of the BritiJJj Nation, thro' a Dittemper that has prov d fatal to fo ma^ ny of the Royal Family here, and to the greateft Families

in Europe: i

This

dedication:

IV

This Method, Madam] ought now no longer to be ftiled new, but a well ex-

and

perienced

eftabliih'd

And as a further Pradice Confirmation of it, I have ventured to lay before Your Royal Highnefs, and the :

World,

a faithful Narrative Practice in New

of my England^ at a Time when the Small Pox raged in that Country with the utmoft

and carry 'd

Violence, great

and

Numbers tho'

I

in a

off

Week;

was then fo un^ happy

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V

Dedication^

happy

as to incur the

Di£

my

pleafure of many of beft Friends, for my fincere Endeavours to ferve

my

Country, I have now the utmoft Pleafure and Satisfaction in obferving Your Royal Highnefss Steadinefs

which

I

am

in

a

Practice,

fatisfied will in

Time appear

be the happieft Difcovery of the Age. to

That Your Royal Highnefs, and every Branch of Your Illuftrious Family

may

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Dedication-

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may

enjoy the beft of Bleffings, is the fincere Prayer of,

Madam] Tour Royal Highnefss

moB

dutiful,

moB

obliged,

and mojl devoted Humble

Servant^

Z^bdiel Boylfton:

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THE

PREFACE the 'Publick an Account ofmy Traftiee ; but being Again importuned thereto, by a great and worthy £PhyJician, and having alfo received a Meffage from afuperior 'Per/on, that an Account of my Succefs of inoculating the Smallpox in New-England might be grateful, as being ofgreat ufe9 and beneficial to the 'Publick, I efieem*d it as the firong* ejl Obligation upon mefo to do, and in Compliance to that Command I have done it faithfully. If I had propofed any Advantage to myfelf, in the Traftke herje, IJhouli have done it above a Tear p aft, at my Arrival inLondon, and not novo at my returning home. And I have given this Account with the greater Chearfulnefs, in hope, that my Mite may influence fome few at leafi tofave their Lives this Way,feeing, from Time to Time, in the Weekly Sills, Numbers who died of the Small-Tox, and hearing of but

FWr jj£j&&£k

few who have had

the Benefit of Inoculation, compared

with the others in the natural Way, notwithfianding the many and handfome Accounts which have been given the "Tublick, greatly in Favour of this Tratlice.

And it may be offome Service,was it only onAccount of the greatfProportiorijof Adult <Perfons, and others advanced {n Tears, to

whom

the Small-Tox, in the natural

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Way, has

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iias been tnoft fatal : And yet from my Experience, I may he allowed to fay, that even fuch have a very fair Pro-

fpecl of p offing well thro' that Difiemper by Inoculation.

I began the 'Practice indeed from a port Confideration thereof; for my Children, whofe Lives 'were very dear to me, were daily in danger of taking the Infection, by

vifuing the Sick in the natural Way ; and although there arofe fuch a Cloud of Oppofcrs at the Beginning, yet finding my Account in the Succefs,_ and eafy Circum-

my

c flances of my Patients, (with the Encouragement of the good Minijters) Irefolv'd to carry it onforthefavingof ÂŁives, not regarding any, or all the Menaces, and Oppo-

fition that

were made againfl

it.

room for any one to and fay, that my Experiments have not been fair, ftnd full Proofs, that inoculating the Small-'Pox is a certain Means of moderating that 2)ifiemper, to thegreat^ This, the warmefi Oppofers of that %)emonftration.

(Practice, who have feen any fair Trials made, are conyinc'd of ; and the only ^Difficulty of convincing all Mankind, is how to make them Eye-witneffesto a Numberfick tf the Small-'Pox in both ways of Infection and this would do it at once, and very much to their Satisfaction And here itfiould in, and Approbation of this Method. r be confidered how rajbly our Patie7its,even wholeFamilies together, rufoed, into this 'Practice, without any Phyfical

I have

not, in this brattice, left

tflvil,

;

or other needful 'Provifion, efpecially in November and December, being convinced of the Succefs of this Method : 'There was no withjlanding them : I mufi inoculate all, without Exception, they being in danger of having the ZDiftemper in ^Preparation,

fuch a cold Scafon as

the natural way. In March and April, indeed,we inoculated none, anil but few in the Summer Seafon, Sut alUiough this 'Practice from the Levant comes recommended to he

made

fon

yet

;

ufe of in the

I did not find

it

Winter as the moji proper Seatofucceedfo well, and prove fa

gentle with w: in the pinrhing cold as in the temperate f MÂťd hotter Szafuw of the Tear,

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I have not ufed this brattice only to the healthful and firong, but to the weak and difeafed, the aged and the young : Not only to the rich, but have carried it into the houfes of the poor, and laid down whole Families "and thf thrd my own Hurry in Sufimfs, and their living out of Town, I have been forced to leave them to the Manageâ&#x20AC;˘

ment of unexperienced Nurfes,yet they all did well.

And as to thofe fix who died under Inoculation, I would obferve that Mrs. Dixvvell, we have great Reafon to believe, was infeBed before.

Mr. White, thrd fplenetic tDelufions, died rather from Abfiinence than the Smallpox. Mrs. Scarbrough and the Indian Girl died of Accidents, by taking cold.

Mrs. Wells and Searle were Perfons worn out with Age and Xiifeafes, and very likely thefe two were infeBed before.

Neither can it be /aid, that there was one found and healthful Perfon amongfi them.

We

met withnofuch terrible EffeBs (fave that2)eath in all its Shapes) from the Smallpox inoculated, as was common amongft us in the natural way f is terrible

viz. 'Purple Spots, Convulfion Fits, bloody Urine, violent Inflammations in the Eyes, Throat, and other Parts, fcarr'd Faces, fome who had lofibothEyes, and, as it has been thought, near an hundred one Eye, with many more melancholy Symptoms too tedious here to enumerate ; not to mention Parents being left Childlefs, Children without Parents, and fometimes Parents and Children's being both carried cjf, and many Families broken up by the 2)efiruBion the Small-Pox made in the natural way. Indeed, wehadfomeRefemblanceofthofe EffeBs, but in none where it was not evident, that they were infeBed in the natural way before ; and tho' we met with but five or fix cafes that bordered on, or refembled more or lefs thofe Symptoms, yet it would not have been firange had there been fix times that Number ; for in Bofton, and in the middle of Roxbmy, no one knew who were, or who. were fiot infeBed, before inoculated ; and I verily believe that twenty five, ij not thirty of my Patients were infeBed hefore inoculated : And this Reafon loan give for every

one's

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that in all and every one whom 1 Inocuand that had not been exposed to an injected Air, and which were above one hundred, not any of them had 3 the kafi Shadow offitch Symptoms upon them, thro the However, I do not rewhole Ccurfe of their 2)ijtemper. commend this 'Brattice to be carry*d on and managed by old Women and Nurfcs \no, I would have it carry'd on and managed by good Phyficians and Surgeons, where they but rather than the PeopleJhould be left are to be had a 'Prey to the Small-Pox in the natural Way, let it be

one's believing fo,

lated,

;

mana^d

I cannot

help thinking that even die of the Small-Pox by Lwculaticn, than there does in the natural Way, the? in thp befi of Hands, and wider the heft of Care.

Andfor rhofc that have not yet come into this Pratl'ice*

by Nurfes,for

in their Hands,

many

lefs

would

for their Affijlance, until they havegain'd better Knowledge, I have givenfame fhort Directions how they may proceed with their 'Patients, when they begin this Pro* c~tice

And if what 1 have may (with the Labour ant taken by many worthy Gentlemen

ofinoculating the Small-Pox.

done, in giving this Account,

Paim which has been ou this Head ) contribute to the leading People into & Method for faving their Lives, and their Bodies from. many other Miferies that do frequently attend thofe that have the natural Small-Pox ; Tfhall obtain my End, and the World will have the Benefit.

J ought to apologize, and ask Pardon ofmy good FrienJs in New England, /br this Liberty I have taken, of pubNames, Ages, and Cafes, without their leave, more especially the young Toadies. And when they confider how difficult a thing it is, to fet 7rttth in a clear Light in this Cafe to the Satisfaction of an unbelieving World and how much room there wou'd have been left lifting their

;

who are not willing to believe, and that are Wranglers againft this PraStice, to have flighted, and argued againft the cIruth and Validity oftheje Account s, were it t for thofe 'Particulars i for I mujl Jtand of fall by thefe Accounts, t 1 fay, when they confider thai 1o thofe

m

st

was done for the good of Mankind, they will

t

forgive tnt

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PREFACE.

upon that Account only

v

I hope and Mire to

he

forgiven. r I do not call upon or exhort the Phyficians and Sur~ geons who are already in the Pratthe, and have ufed their Endeavours to promote it, nor do I pretend to inform or tnfiruclthem.

MyDefignis only to (lir up thofe who have not yet come into and ufed this Method, and to lav before the People a fair fiate of the THfiemper in both jays of Injection, that they may be apprized of the danger in the one, and the reafonable Expetlaticn they have of doing well in the other.

Reafonings and 0~ pinions Ifubmit to thofe of better Judgment, but as we are rational Creatures,we do, orjhculd delight in acting upon Principles of Reafon and thofe who confider this Method, and make ufe of it, I think may be faid fo to -

.

My

;

net.

I hope the Reader will excufe me for troubling him withfome of the ^Difficulties that I met with. I have heen bafely us'd and treated by feme who were Emmies to this Method, and havefuffered much in my Reputation andinmySufmefs too, from the Odiums and Rcflsclions cafl upon me for beginning and carrying on this Practice tn New England ; which ill Ufage Ithinkjuflyintitles me to make the necejfary RefleHions, and relate Matters tfFatl in my own Jufiification, and to recommend and do jujlice to the Method, which was fo expoSd and cony demn d by their Mifreprefentations, which have been fpread abroad in the World; and to ft things in a good Light, that the World may impartially judge between the Parties ( if I may be allowed the Term ) whieh of the two have afted mojl like Men and Chripans, viz. Whether thofe who have oppofd and exclaim d againjl this Method without due Confideration of or knowing fcarce any thing about it ; or thofe whb have confider'd well, heen in the PraClice of, and have proved by their own Experience, or that have feen the good Efieils and Setiefitofit, and from fuch Reafons have recomms/ide'd it to others ?

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pity thefe who thro' eafily forgive and inPoint of Confcience, have rejufed the gently appeared againji it offer'd Mercy, and that have a Such, with the Jffiftance of Divine, together with the7 may eafily get thro Exercife of their own Reafon upon it, Indeed

lean

Tendemefs, or

But for thofe who out ofprivate "Piques, 'd and railed againji it, and who exclaim or Views, have have trumpt up the groundlefs ill Confequences that would theirUifficulties.

it out withjufi : Such 1 leave to fweat own "Pan, I Js for'my Repentance. due and Reflection know of no better Way ofjudging between moral and imthe good or moral Methods of Medical Pratlice, thanfrom

attend or follow it

ill Succefs

that does, or

may

attend them.

I have for CDiflinB ionfake; call'd the Small-Vox taken

thd I know not any Reafon ( only ) natural; in the think that by Inoculation may not be call'd fo too, for I mojl genuine the Fffecl be to Way, of either the diftinft, in only to them between feems ^Difference the and Nature ; he as in that oj improving Plants, the one is propagated bv Nature accidentally, and the other by Nature with Indudry, with Intent to make them better. 'The one is called wild, the other tame, or improved ; and as the Ground is good or bad,fo will the "Plant or Fruit be differing, n;o>-e or lefs : So it will be in the Small-Pox

Mr

why

Forgive me this Comparison, it may rat None of our inoculated in flriEl Philofophy.

'Patients afterward took the Small -'Pox, tho' they were I make this Obfervation lejl the continually expos'd. y JzHueflionfljoukl be asked, tho I think it high Time that tran/planted.

pod

hold

groundlefs Scruples fhculd be laid afide.

There is a large Field open for much to be aid by the

f

Ingenious and Learned in Traife of this Method, and I hope good Improvement will be made in, and by it. .

Z. B.

TH6

INTRODUCTION. £$$??$$£HE

T

Small-Pox., which had been & Terror t0 New-England fince firft it '&& *X paid a Vifit there coming into Bofc 3

ton,

and fpreading there

in

April^

1721, put the Inhabitants into great Gonfternation and Diforder.

Dr. Mather, in Companion to the Lives of the People, tranf-

from the Philofophical Tranla&ions of' Royal Society, the Accounts fent them by Dr. fwionius and Pyllarinus of inoculating ths Small-Pox in the Levant, and fent them to the Practitioners of the Town, for their Confident tion thereon. Upon reading of which I was very well pleas'd, and refolv'd in my Mind to try the Experiment ^ well remembring the Destruction the Small-Pox made 19 Years before, when laft in Boft on $ and how narrowly I then efcapVl with my Life. Now, when my Wife and mafty others were gone out of Town to avoid the Distemper, and all Hope given up of preventing the further fpreading ©f it, and the Guards wer% crib'd

the

1

CO removed from the Doors of infected Houand not being afes, I began the Experiment ; felf, my upon ( fuch was my ble to make it this Method of Succefs and Faith in the Safety ) fake ) upon Example for 1 chofe to make it ( my own dear Child, and two of my Servants. firft

BBfiUNE

the 26th, 1721. 1 inoculated

W$!k

my

Son

my

Negro Man, and Jackey, two and an

Iffip Thomas, of about

fix,

Jack, thirty fix, half Years old. They all complain'd on the 6th Day ; upon the 7th, the two Children were a little hot, dull and fleepy, Vhomas ( only) had twitchings and ftarted in his fleep. The 8th, the Childrcns Fevers continued, tommy's twitchings and ftartings in fleep increafed ; and tho* the Fever was gentle and his Senfes bright, yet as the Practice was new, and the Clamour, or rather Rage of the People againft it fo violent, that I was put into a very great Fright ; and not having any Directions from Dr. fimonius and Pyllarinus concerning this Practice, I had nothing to have Recourfe to but Patience, and therefore waited upon Nature for a Crifis ( neither my Fears nor the Symptoms abating ) until the 9th ; when early in the Morning I gave him a Vomit, upon which the Symptoms went off, and the fame Day, upon him and the black Child, a kind and favourable Small- Pox came out, of about an hundred a piece ; after which their Circumftances became eafy, our Trouble was over, and they well.

1 foon were Jack's

(3> Jack's Complaints, in two or three Days were over, and tho' he had but a few PuHles about one of his Inoculations, I am inclin'-d to think he had had the Small-Pox before.

It was plain and eafy to fee, ( even in thefe two ) with Pleafure, the difference between having the Small-Pox this way, and that of ha-

ving

it

And

in the natural

way. was new

in Europe, fo it mutt needs make a ftrange Figure in New-England, and more efpecially fo when one or two of our learned Efculapian Tribe had made the Difcovcry how thisPractice wou'd produce thePlague viz. becaufe tfimonius told them that it fometimes happen'd that Swellings were produe'd by it in fome Emunctory of the Body and likewife they cavilled and faid, that Dr. Mather had not given a fair Reprefentation from 1'iraonius and Pyllarinus's Accounts.

I pray'd that they might be read ; but Dr. Douglas ,who own'd them, and had taken them from Dr. Mather , refufed to have them read, or even afterwards to lend them to the Governor to read , iuch was his extraordinary Care, Jell the People, in time, ihould have been reconcil'd to the Piadice, and taken the Benefit of it.

And upon July the 21ft, 17 21, being a third time call'd to an Account for ufing this Practice as this Practice

-,

influenced thereto ) who bore Authority in Boflon, I then having feven Perfons more under Inoculation, whofe Illnefs were not yet come on : I then gave a publick Cavitation to the Practitioners of the Town

by fome Gentlemen (

C 3

(wh速

C4) who were then prefent ) to vifit my Patients, who were under that Practice, and to judge or

(

iind report their Circumftances as they found

But Dr. Lawrence Dalhonde's terrible Account ( fee the Account at the End J that he then gave of that Practice was fuch, that jttone of them faw Caufe to accept my Invitation and vifit my Patients. Inftead of this, and reporting their Circumftances juftly and fairly, as it was their Duty, and the People's Right^ for them to have done, ibme'of them made ic their Bufinefs to invent, collect, and publilri idle, nj unhand ridiculous Stories and Miirepre-

them.

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of 'the People's Circumftances under k, and the Practice ; tho' none of them had ever been concern'd for, or had feen one fingle Perfon of them in their Illnefs, from the beginning of this Practice, to the end of it, except

by Accident, fave Mr. IVbite once or twice, or that knew any thing of their Circumftances, but that they faw them come well and early abroad after their Small-Pox. And not fatisfy'd with fuch unjuft Proceedings in New-England, left the 0Truth fnou'd be made known to Great Britain, and that our good Succefs might influence them to ufe this Practice, Douglafs favour'd them with his pretended wonderful Knowledge of things which he knew little of, as may be feen lentatio'ns

In Dr. Wqgftajfps Book againft Inoculation.

Atid as for Dalbondcs moil furprizing Inftan-

knowing Part of Mankind now believes of them as if he had faid that their Heads had dropt off, or that Inoculation had fcunvd ces, the

as Jitrlc

Mea

( 5 ) into Women, or any other ftrange Tho't might have come into his Head.

I have made diligent Enquiry in England Joxft cou'd never meet with any one who had heard of any fiich Practice in thele Parts of Europe^

Men that

until

within thele

five

believes there ever v/as,

Years

and

pait,

elpecially in

or that

an Ar-

unlikely Place to begin it in ; and if began there, the moil likely Place he could have thought of to have made it publick to the

my, the moll

So that if he does not ^et well-attefted Proofs from Drs. Hehctius, B tlatio^ and Barrera, of the Fads, I doubt, for the future, his Affirmation will not have that Credit in the World, as an honeit Man's ought to have.

Thele were fome of the Oppofitions and Difficulties I met with in the Beginning of this Practice, and which was the Means of keeping out World.

hundreds, if not thoufands, from coming into the practice of Inoculation,

which might have

many valuable Lives that were loft by the Small-Pox in the natural way, as may better appear when the Succefs in each way is faved

compared.

2th, 1721, I inoculated Mr. Jajhua He had upon the Cheever, about 39 Years old.

6th and 7th Days fome light fhivering and fe-

July the

1

Turns, and upon the 8th they went off, the Scarifications being almoft dried- up, fo that we concluded the Operation had not taken effect.

On the 9th in the Evening (he being well) a Fire breaking out, he run with others to help

verifti

put out the Fire, and in labouring at

it,

got wet

with

:

(6 J with Water and Sweat, return'd home very ill and fall of pain, and continued fo alJNight ; upon vifiting him in the Morning, I found him under the fignsof a highFever,a dry inflam'dSkin full of Pain, with a hard and quick Pulfe, and 1 feared he would have had the Confluent Small Pox. He being lufty and ftrong, I bled him largely, gave him a Vomit, and blifter'd him,

upon which the Symptoms went ofF, and the Small-Pox came out of a kind diftind Sort, and his Pains, and our Fears, were foon over, and in a fhort time he was well.

His Inoculations never inflam'd & come to run, as is ufual, but dry'd away almoft from the firft.

Until now, I ufed the Surky Way of fcarifying and applying the Nut-fhell, &c. which I foon left off, and made an Inciilon thro the true Skin, and apply'd a Plainer over ; which I found fmce to be the better Way. July the 14th, I inoculated Mr. John Helyer, of about 34, and my Negro, M<?ll^ of 37 Years old.

Mr. Helyer had the Small-Pox at the ufual time, and of a kind diftincl: Sort, the Symptoms gentle, and he foon was well.

MeU had a flow Fever a Day or two, andfome Pain, which both went off, and her Inoculation foon dry'd up 5

I fuppofe

flie had had the Small- Pox before and the Reafon why the Negro Man and me was fo diibrder'd from Inoculation, might be from their being expos'd to the Evening and Morning Air The Weather being hot, I did not confine them before they complain d. ;

:

17th, I inoculated

my

Son John, about

1$

Years

C7) Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, a fmall fprinkling of a kind Sort, and the Symptoms gentle ; but upon eating Milk, his Nofebled, and he appeared feverifh. I forbad the Milk, and both left him.

He being a Lover of Milk, a Day or two after, he had Milk and Water for his Drink, upon which his Note bled, and flulhing Heats return'd After which, Milk was deny'd him, and the Symptoms went off and never return'd again. In lieu of Milk and Water, he drank Teas, which finifh'd the Cure, and he was well.

19th, I inoculated Mr. John Webb, about 67, Mr. Jo/epb Webb, 50, and his Wife 43 Years The eldeft and youngeft of thefe were old. weak infirm Perfons, they all had the Small-Pox :

the ufual Time, and of the diitinct Sort.

Mr. John Webb had an ill turn of Faintnefs and

at

Oppreflion of Spirits, at the coaling out of the Pox j but when they were out, the Symptoms went off, and he, with the other two, palTed gently thro' the Diltemper, and foon were well.

Augufi the 5th, I inoculated Mr. Larabee and' Mrs. HÂŤ/tf,each about 30, Mrs. Efther Webb, 19, Mr. Cbeever's Lad, 16 Years old.

Three of thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a good diftincl Sort, their Symptoms gentle, and they foon were well. Mrs. Efther nurs'd her Father and Mother thro' the heighth of their Small-Pox, by Inoculation, before fhe was inoculated and they having it ib very favourably, it was hoped that fhe had not taken the Infection of them ; but we were foon convinced -,

Šf that Error, by her falling

fick

and the breaking

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ingout of the Confluent Small-Pox on the 4th or 5th Day after her Inoculation ; and it was with a great deal of Care and Pains that fhe liv'd She alio was reftor'd to Health in a thro' it. fhort time after.

12th,

I

inoculated a

25 Years old, being

this

young Gentleman under

and much

the only

againit

Inftance

my

in

Inclination^

which

I

was

oblig'd to Secrecy.

inoculated Mr. Edward Langdon, 25, Mr. Larafae's Servant-Man, about 18 Years old.

They all three had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a diitinci Sort ; the two Jaft had I

but few in

Number, and

their

Symptoms

gentle.

The young Gentleman had them pretty fu]l,and ( near the filling ) for two Days, his fever was brisk

j

but upon bleeding and

Attidtne^ the Fever

went

off,

the Ufe of an and he, with the

other two, were foon recover'd to Health.

22d, 1 inoculated Mr. Samuel Valentine ^ about 19 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a kind diitinci: Sort, the Symptoms gentle ; and he foon did well.

23d, I inoculated Mrs. ^tbcrnton, about 21 Years old ; fhe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, an handfome fprinkling of a diftind Sort, and complained much of the Sorenefs ; and her Pox continued longer on her than ufual, before thpy fell off and dry'd away ; the Symptoms were gentle, and in a little Time fhe was well.

Mr. Nathaniel Langdon, of Son Zabdiel^ 14, Mrs. Margaret Langdm^ 20, and Mrs. Joanna Syms of 15 Years I

inoculated

about 27,

my

old.

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They all had the Small-Pox at the ufual old.

Time, of a very diftinct Sort, their Symptqsis gentle, and they foon were well ; tho 3 my Sou lay two Nights in an infected Chamber before inoculated.

30th, I inoculated Mr.

John Colman, 18 Years and Mrs. DixweU, about 37. Mr. Colmati had a kind and favourable Small-Pox,as is common in this Way, and foon got well. Mrs. Dixwell was a fat Gentlewoman of a tender Conftitution, fhe came frightened into the Pra&ice, as molt of the others had done ; not only by living near the Infected, but palling fome Days before by a Door wherein lay a Corpfe ready for the Grave, which died of the Confluent Small-Pox, the Stench whereof greatly offended and furprifed her with Fear of being infected However, fhe went the ufual Time of nine Days before Eruption, and broke out full of a diftinct Sort ; but being of a very moifl Habit, they fluxed in her Face, about the 7th Day She had a fore Throat, was often reftlefs, and by Turns had a Difficulty of Breathing, her Fever and Thirft being yet moderate The nth, her Pox began to turn $ the 13th, her Face became crufty j and the 14th, the Scabs began to fall off, and fhe appeared more comfortable 3 her Incifions grew wider, and run plentifully.

All this while we were in good Hopes of her doing well.

This Afternoon her two Children were old,

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brought to her,

juft

recovered in the natural

way, which gave her great Joy, but put her Spirits into too great a Motion ; and the Weather changing cool ( I apprehend ) fbe took fome

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was taken with two Hours ; about hyfteric Fits, which held her and fome Anbut upon the Ufe of an Anodine refted fome tihyfterics, me became quiet, and refrefh'd in the feem'd and Night, that Hours the of Day : part good it held and Morning, brought on returning, Evening But the Fever upon new a with 3 together her Fits, which 1 bled her and repeated her Blifters, and ufed many other Means, but to no Effect The Fits and Fever followed her clofe until the 17th of Eruption, and 26th from Inoculation, when me died. Nate, this was the only cafe, wherein we met with Fits in all my Inoculated Pa-

fome

cold, for that

Evening

fhe

:

tients.

Mr. Samuel Jones, of about The 32, and Mrs. IValdran of 35 Years old former had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a favourable diftinÂŁt Sort, and was foon well.

Mrs. Waldron fuffer'd fome light touches of a feverifh Diforder on the 6th and 7th Days, and on the 8th they vanifh'd. Knowing ( thro her Fears ) I had done it the firft Time but flightly, I then inoculated her again ; which took Effect, and at the ufual Time produe'd a kind diflincT: Pox, whick (he eafily pafs'd thro', and was foon well.

31ft, I inoculated

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September the 4th, I inoculated

Mrs

B

f,

of

about 32Yearsold,upon aPimple me hadferatched offon one Arm, and on the other, where fhe had prick'd theSkin,fo as to raife a fmallDrop ofBlood: This Inoculation was attended only with fome feverifh turns,which upon the 8th Day vanifhed 5 and upon the otU^ her Fears being great left fhe fhould

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way, me fuffer'd make the proper Incifions ; after which at 7th Day, her Fever came on, and the Small

{hould take

in the natural

it

to

the

Pox came out on the 9th pretty full of the diShe had fomething more of a Feftinct Sort this way, and about the height is ufual than ver her Menfes came down, which Diftemper of the Uneafinefles a few Days ; but all her added to :

fhe foon got well. It was ftrongfhe mifcarry'd ; but upon Uriel: that iy reported, the Nurfe, I found it falfe and Inquiry of groundlefs, fhe not being then with Child.

I inoculated Mrs. Dtdge, about 20 Years old, who had nurfed her Sifter, then lying fick of the Confluent Small-Pox, until the 7th Day from She being terrify 'd with the Cirher Eruption

went over, and

:

cumftances of her Sifter, I was perfuaded by her Mother aad felf to inoculate her, which I did, by way of Experiment : She had the SmallPox at the ufual Time, with very little Sicknefs

She was fo had been lick.

5th, I inoculated Juftice Lynde's Negro Boy* about 17 Years old, he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a very kinddiftinct Sort, and foon was well. or Pain,

and fcarce an hundred in

all

:

foon weil,it could hardly be faid fhe

my

three Daughters, JeruJha of about 10, Mary 8, and Elizabeth 4 Years the old ; the eldeft had but about 40 or 50, and Faces ; other two were pretty full in their 6th, I inoculated

an

their

Symptoms proving

gentle, they foon

did well.

Mr. Elias Adams, about 18 the Small-Pa* at the comYears of Age, & he had mon 2 7th, I inoculated

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full of the diftinct Sort ; about very reftlefs and hot ; but upwas the height,he Mixture and two bliftering oily an on the ufe of went off, and he got Symptoms Plaifters, the

mon Time, and

foon

well.

Mr. Abiel Galley's Negro Girl, about 14 Years old ; me had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind diitindt Sort, and was foon well.

I inoculated

8th, I inoculated Mrs. Pierce, about 32 Years old ; (he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time,

and of the

diftinct Sort,

and foon did

well.

9th, I inoculated Mr. Sfbomas B-}fttn about 31 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a kind diftind Sort, a little but the Sympfuller than ordinary this Way toms proved gentle, and he foon was well.

I inoculated Mrs. iVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; j, who had been coming into the Practice for fome Time before, and had lived in the Way of Infection above a -,

but now, through Hope and Fear, tho' fubmitted to it. The 3d Day fhe fell fick ; the 5th, the Small-Pox appeared, and continued coming out until the 8th or ninth,

Month

too

5

late, (he

when

fhe

was

full

of a fmall, depreffed,

conflu-

ent Sort, and her Throat was dry and fore ; fhe had no immediate Signs of Danger until the 1 6th, (fhe being, as it might be fuppofed, a breeding, and 8 or 9 Weeks gone J when her Menfes came down upon her, upon which her Strength failed, and her Spirits funk. The 17th, f\no,

flooded,

fhe

was

in

and liegan

the Waters,

to talk idly, conceiting I vifited her about

ÂŁ3c.

12 that Night, and found her delirious,extream'

ly cold,

and

ma

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clammy Sweat, and

her Pulfe

fo low, that I could hardly be lcnfiblc lhe had any at all ; I ordered her ibme Drops of

Cinnamon and Liquid Laudanum in Suexpeding little from a weaker Cordial) of which (lie had given her two or three times I vifited in the Morning, & found that Night. her rmich revived, and her flooding itayM ; there was a fmall imperfect Subftance found in Oil of

gar, (

the Bed. Afterwards fire mended {lowly, a violent Inflammation attending her Eyes, her Face being much fwell'd, and her Eye-lids doled j

we were not fharp

of the Danger, until the ulcerated the horney Coat the Sight of which fhe loit ; lhe ofenfible

Humour had

of one Eye therways recovered and did well. nth, I inoculated Mrs. Jane Cojman of about 14, and Mr. Graftan Feveryear of about 30 Years old 3 on both thefe the Small-Pox came out at the ufual Time, of a kind diftincl Sort, the Symptoms friendly, they foon grew well.

Mrs. Jane had about 50 or 60, Mr. Feveryear a good handlbme Sprinkling 5 he had lived in an infedted Houfe about a Month before ino-

culated.

1

2th, I inoculated

Mr. Daniel

Berry's Son, a-

bout2o,and hisDaughter about 16, and Mr. Melvin about ÂŁ2 Years old Thefe three had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind diftind Sort, and they foon were well.

13th, I inoculated Mrs. Margaret Salter, about 30 Years old, a weakly hyflerical Woman, and often ill 3 aud tho' fhe had the Small-Pox very favourably, as to Number,yetfhecomplain'd :

much

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much of Pain in her Head, and Vapours, which gave me fome Trouble ; but in a fhort Time and me foon was well.

Mehin, about 19 inoculated Mrs. 1 at the ufual Small-Pox Years old / fhe had the Sort, and foon Time, and of a kind diiiinct did well. She liv'd fome diftance from me, fo that I faw her but twice after I inoculated her.

16th, I inoculated Mr. John Adams about 35, and Mr. Jones's Child, 4 Years old ; they both had the Small-Pox at the Time expected, few in Number, the Symptoms gentle, they foon were well. Thro Neglect, Mr. Adams's Inoculations inflamed, and became painful for 3 or 4 Days, but were afterwards eafy, and foon

thofe

Symptoms went

off,

Eliz.

5

healed.

I inoculated Mrs.

Adams about 50 and her paughter about 4 Years old ; it had no EfFed upon Mrs. Adams, which a little furprized me and upon propofing to inoculate her again, fhe faid fhe remember'd, when a little Girl, the Small-Pox was in her Father's Family, and fhe ill, and that there was a Difpute between the Doctor and Nurfe whether her's was the Small-Pox or not, having but three Puftles the Mark of one fhe fhewed me.

I advis'd her to nurfe her Child, which was now ill,and be out of Fear ; and fhe did fo. The Child, at the ufual Time, had the Small-Pox pretty full in the Face, and had a confiderable Fever, attending.

I gave it a Vomit, which over work'd, and weaken'd it for the prefent, inftead of relieving it The Child continu'd :

very

ill

until

about the *th or 7th

Day

of

Eruption

t

:

r when

the

15

)

Pock

ripen'd, the Fever foon return'd to Health. went off, Richard Fucker, Mr. about 40 I inoculated Years old, of a broken Conftitution ; he had the Small Pox at the ufual Time, few in Num-

Eruption

;

and

it

good in Kind, the Symptoms gentle, and he foon was well.

ber,

20th, I inoculated Mrs. Eliz. Valentine about Mr. War tier 21, and Mr. Profiler's Indian Man 20 Years old ; thefe all had the SmallPox at the ufual Time, of a good diftinct Sort The Indian had 3 ori uneafy Nights, after which his Reft return d, and they were all 18,

foon well. Mrs. Valentine had but very few.

2 1 ft, I inoculated Mr. Nathaniel Ayres of about 62, ( he was a Gentleman very AfthmatiMrs. cal )"his Son Nathaniel Ayres about 25, Elizabeth Kitt about 22 Years old ; fhe had been in infejfted Houfes and was taken down the next Day, had the Small-Pox full of a good Sort : The other two had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a very kind diftinct Sort,

&

and few

in

Number.

The

old

Gentleman was

every Day, for his Afthma render'd him uncomfortable in Bed. They all foon in his Cloaths

and did well.

22d, I inoculated Mrs. Woodbury, about 28 Years old ; fhe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftind Sort, the Symptoms gentle, and fhe foon was well.

23d, I inoculated the Hon. Thomas Fitch, BCq; the his only Son, about 14 Years.old 3 he had recover'd

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Small-Pox at the ufual Time, few in Number, the Smptoms eafy, and he foon was well.

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Offober the 6th. I inoculated Mrs. Eunice WiU 22 Years old ;fhe had the Small-Pox

lardy about

at the uiual

was ibon

Time, of

a kind,

diitinct Sort,

and

Hannah Breck of

16,

well.

13th, 1 inoculated Mrs.

and Nathaniel Loring of 1 2 Years old thefe had the Small-Pox at the uiual Time, of a kind, di.ftinct Sort, and foon were well.

I mould have inoculated thefe, had I been able, lail Night, with Mr. Daniel Loring s eldcft Son, about 15 Years old, (Brother to Nathaniel') who had been fent into the Country about a Fortnight •>

before to efcape it in the natural Way ; he came well Jail Evening to be inoculated ; in the Night was taken with the Symptoms of theSmallPox, which this Day brake out ofthe confluent Sort He foon loft his Reafon, and died on the 6th or 7th Day. I mention this Cafe for thefe Reafons, viz. Had I inoculated him as was intended, few wou'd have believed him infected before and that it may be fuppos'd, at leaft, that t'hs Small-Pox lurks in the Body longer when taken in. the natural Way, than when taken id the artificial Way ; as has been often obferv'd,in many Cafes, where People have been but once in the Way of Infection, or that have come from infected Towns or Veffels, &c.

14th, I inoculated Mrs. Martha Fitch about 16, and Mrs. Mary about 15 Years old , they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time very favourably, few in Number, the Symptoms pleafant, and they foon were well.

26th, I inoculated Mrs. Sarah Boylfton, at R^x-

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^1 of about 26 Years ©Id

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fhewas at Lodgings in

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the Country to efcape the Diftemper : Before her Travail came on,the Small-Pox broke out in the

Family

;

and about two Days

deliver'd, her

now

diftrefs'd

after fhe was Fear of that being over, fhe was with the danger of having the

Small-Pox in the natural Way. My Brother came to me to advife in the Affair, and denYd me to go with him to fee her ; accordingly I did, and that prepar'd; and upon both their Requefts, I inoculated her.

A Coach was provided, and, wrapt up in a Bed, fhe was brought home to Bofiun, and on the 10th Day broke out with the Small- Pox, of a kind, diftincl: Sort, and pafs'd thro 3 it without any fenfible Danger, and foon recovered her Health, from lying-in, and having the Small-Pox together.

At the fame Time, and

at the fame Houfe I inoculated Mrs. Mary Lam c f ?^, and Mrs. Rebecca Abbot of. 1 1 Years old ; they b >th had the Small-

Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftincl: Sort, the Symptoms provM eafy, and they being out of Town, I faw them but twice, after Inoculation, before thev were well. inoculated Mrs. Blague's Negro Girl, about ufual ; fhe had the Small- Pox at the Time, as favourably as any of the reft, and foon got well.

30th, I inoculated Capt. John Osborne about 36, and his Wife about 33, Judge Davenport's I

5 Years old

Son John about 17, Mr. Caleb Lyman about 43 and Sufanna Lyman about 7 Years old ; they all had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time of a fine diftinct Sort, the Symptoms gentle, and they were foon well.

E

31ft

(in the Reverend Mr. tfbomas all an<\ Mr. Dana each Afpingw Samuel Walter, Mr. 9 all had the Small-Pox they between 25, and 30, at the ufual Time, and of the diftindt Sort. Mr. Jfpingwall had feveral reftlefs Nights, which obli. ged me to give him an Anodine for two or three Nights following. The other two Gentlemen faid he was troubled with Valaughed at him pours. They all in a fhort Time, were well. Thefe 31ft, I inoculated

&

Gentlemen came from Roxbury into Boftun to be and lay in one Room ; and their Recommendation of this Practice, at their Return prov'd to be of great Service to that Town, inoculated,

in carrying the Inhabitants foon thro' that diftemper, and in faving many Lives, if I may be allow'd to judge from the Succefs of the different Ways of Infection, viz. out of the firft thirteen men and they chiefly heads of Families who had the Small-Pox in the natural way, ten of them died and in above 40 Men that were inoculated at or near the fame Timc,inthe fame Town, not one Man died.

I inoculated Mr. Nathaniel Larhig's only Child about 9 Years old, his Father being much concern'd for him, on Account of the Small-Pox having been very fatal to their Family ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, Very kindly, few in Number, and he foon v/as well.

November the lit, I inoculated Mrs. Sarah Bromfield about 25, Mrs. Mary Bromfield 23, Mrs. Cbeekky 24, and Mrs. WiUardh Daughter 18 Years old 5 they ail had the Small-Pox at the ufnal Time, of a kind diftind Sort, and were foon -,

well.

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2d, I inoculated Mr. Webb, of Cbarleftown, about 52, and his Wife about 28 ; they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftinct Sort, and were ibon well..

I inoculated the Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Pier" p{?nt y of Roxbury, 24 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind diltinct Sort,

few in Number, and he foon got

well.

3 d, I inoculated Mrs. Winflaw, about 21 Years old i (he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time,

She was of the diitinct Sort, but pretty full. hot and reftlefs at theiilling of the Pock, whichoccafion'd me to bleed her j after which the Symptoms went off, and (he foon recover 'd her Health.

7th, I inoculated

Mr. Ebenezer Holmes, about 17 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftinct Sort, and was foon well.

9th, I inoculated Mr. Jtfeph White of about 32, Mrs. Goodwin 36, and Mr. EdmondWells of 23 Years old ; thefe all had the Small-Pox at the> Two of ufual Time, and of the diftinct Sort. thefe complain'd a little more than ordinary at the coming out and filling, which foon went off, and they all foon were well.

13 th, I inoculated Mr. Daniel Loring's Wife about 41, and herDaughter about 12 Years old 5 they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftinct Sort, and ibon did well.

14th, I inoculated Mrs. Mary Bath, 15 Years old; (he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, dirtin& Sort, and foon did well. his 16th, I inoculated Anthony Stoddard, Efq; about Man Indian his Son Simeon about 13, and aii E 2, â&#x20AC;˘

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they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind Sort, few in Number, the Symptoms gentle, they loon were well.

ai

;

17th, I inoculated Mr. James Alford, about 28 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind Sort,few in Number, the Symp-

toms gentle, and he foon was well.

1 8th, I inoculated Capt. Samuel Greenwood about 31, Mr. Ifaac Greenwood 18, Mr. Obadiah Ayer 32, Capt. Prince 28, and Mr. Lyman's Negro Woman 30 Years old ; all thefe had the SmallPox at the ufual Time,of a kind 5 diitinct Sort,but few in Number, and they foon did well.

19th, I inoculated Mrs. Kebekah Adams^bout 1 4 Years old ; fhe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, few in Number, the Symptoms eafy, and Jhe foon did well.

20th, I inoculated Mr. John Gardner about 18, and Mrs. Morrice $$ Years old ; they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diftinct Sort, the Symptoms eafy, and they foon ,

did well.

2 1 ft, I inoculated John White, Efq ; of about 52 Years old i he was then a weak infirm Man, and had been fonear 30 Years, fome time confumptive and very fplenetic Thus knowing his :

unhappy Conftitution,

perfuaded him to remove further into the Country to avoid the Infection.

He, tired with a Country Life already, and not knowing when Boftcn wou'd be freed from the Small-Pox, though very cautious and timorous, yet wou'd be inoculated.

The SmallPox came out on the 9th, as ufual, of the diftind Sort, the Symptoms eafy they continued comI

ing

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ihg out the loth, and nth, at which was pretty full of a very diitinct Sort,

Time he

and the Symptoms eafy, except that he wasipleneticand dull, which he was from the 6th, when he firit complain'd y 12th and 13th the Pock came forward, tho'flowly, and of but an indifferentCompleclion.

Now

his lpleneticDarkneflfes encreaf-

and whereas the firit Days he took but little Nourifhment, now he wou'd take none, by his Good-will, and refus'd to be ipoke to, or comforted, notwithftanding he had no Complaints

ed,

of Pain or Sicknefs, Heat or Oppreflion Breaft.

Thus he lay languifhing, and withering away like a Plant without Moifture ( the Pock not ripe, and of a livid Colour ) until the 1 2th of Eruption and 2 lit from Inoculation, wheij he died.

22d, I inoculated Mrs. Rujpl, 30, and two of her Children, one 4 and the other 2 Years old, Mrs. Abigail iVillard 2,2. Years old jthefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a kind diitinct Sort ; the Symptoms gentle, they all foon either at his

did well.

Mr. Samuel Stevens his Servant Months, of Child 14 3^ his Girl 1 Warren 28, and Mr. Indian Boy 14, j ? his hi? -Brother 18 Years old ; fix of thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind-diftindfc Sort, the Symptoms gentle, they were foon well.

The Girl was taken ill the next Day, broke, out the 3d of the confluent Sort, had a high Fever, a bad Throat, and with much ado me efcaped How to account with her Life, and did well.

Lofs, ( they liva at were for this Accident, we ing I

inoculated, at Rexbary,

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ing diftant from infected Houfes ) until the Girl was well ; and then flie confefs'd how ftie got the Diftemper viz. About a Week or ten Days before I inoculated her, fhe went into an infect:

ed Houfe, to fee fome Acquaintance there, but dare not fpeak of it before now, for Fear uf Anger.

23d, I inoculated Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton, and Mr. John Lowel, each about t 8 j Mr. Vhomas Dimond 14 Years old.

24d, I inoculated the honourable Judge ghiincy's Son Edmond, Mr. Ebenezer Suril, Mr. EbenezerQee, each 18, Mr. Samuel Dunbar , 16, Mr. Samuel Freeman, 15, Mr. Benjamin Fitch, and Mr. James Varney, each 14, Mr. Edward Wigglef-* worth, ( Mr. Hollis's Profeflbr, 32 ) Mr. William Welfteed, Fellow, 24,

MtfBenjamin

Gibfotr 21,

Years old.

25th, The honourable Judge Sewall's Grandfon, Samuel Hirft, 17, the honourable Jonathan

Son Andrew, 15, Mr. James Pitts, 14 Meeting in- this Practice, within three Days fuch a Number of our College young Gentry ( and with them two of their Overfeers) I take the Liberty of mentioning them as fuch, and I hope the Youths will manage well. Fifteen of thefe had the Small- Pox at the ufual tirnS, and of a kind, diftincl: Sort, few in Number and their Symptoms gentle. Mr. JVigglefwortb had the Small- Poxat the fame time, and of a very aiitincl: Sort, but not fo kind ; between the coming out and filling of the Pock, he fuffer'd, two or three Days, an Oppreffion of the Spirits, wandering Pains, and Sicknefs at Stomach, which Belcher's

Years

old.

all

C*3 all

)

went ofFatthe ripening of the Pock, and he,

with the other Fifteen foon recovered

and did

well.

I inoculated at Raxbury, Mr. Barnard, of about 30, Mr. Benjamin Woods, 23, Mr. Eleazer ttiams, 25, Mr. Edward Dorr, 35, and three of his Children, one n, one 5, and one three Years old. The three former of thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual time, and of a diftinft Sort ( the Weather, it being December, was verycold, and the Country-Houfes not fo warm as thofe in Bofton ) they complain'd a little more of the Sorenefs of the Pocks, and of their Inoculations, but paiVd bravely thro' it, and foon

W

were well.

I fhall omit the Account of Mr. Dorr and his Children here, and give it with the other Part of his Family, which were inoculated five Days after, viz. the 29th of November.

25th, I inoculated Mr. Thomas Jeners, of about 29, and Mr. Parker 26 Years old, both of Cbarkjiown ; they had the Small-Pox at the ufual time, and of a diftincl: Sort, Mr. Jeners's very few and favourable, but Mr. Parker had a great many, and fuffer'd a great deal of Sorenefs,Heat, and want of reft two or three Days at the filling ; which foon went off, and they both did well.

26th, I inoculated Mr. Samuel Gardner, about 20 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diitincT: Sort, few in Number, and he foon was well.

I inoculated Mr. 2ufts of Cambridge, About 31,

and his Negro Boy 12 Years

old.

I

was now fo

( fo

much employ'd

their Sicknels

hJ

in Bofion

came on,

and Roxbury, when

when Mr. kirn fent for me, I could not go to them, and only fent Directions, with fome few Medicines, and that

never faw either until they were well, They had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of the favourable Sort, as he gave me the Account fome time after, when he came to pay his Bill.

27th, I inoculated Mr. Francis Foxcroft, of a-

bout 30, Mr; Samuel Danforth 28, both of Cam; and at Roxbury the Reverend Mr. Nehe. miah Walter, about 58, and Daughter, 17, his Son, 12, and another Child about 7 Years old j the Reverend Mr. tfhomas Walter's Wife 23, bridge

Mr. Harbottle Dorr, 25,his Siller Clemence, 22, Eight of thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time,and of a kind, diftimft Sort,their Symptoms gentle, and they loon were well.

Mr. Walter's Inoculation had no Effect upon him. He faid, when he was a Child he had an Illnefs, with breaking out, but they did not know that itwas the Small- Pox. This his Mother told him when alive.

28th,

inoculated Major Bowks of Roxbury, 37. Years old; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of the diitind and favourable Kind, and loon was well.

I

about

I

inoculated Mr. Varne/s Negro Boy, about 18 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind,diftin6t Sort, and foon was well.

29th, I inoculated, at Roxbury, Col. Jojbua

Lamb, about 45, his Son about 17, his Niece 13, Negro Boy, i 5 , Mr. William Bant, 23, and -Mrs. Morris's Girl, 15, Yearsold.

Five of thefe had

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had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a kind, diftinft Sort, the Symptoms gentle, and Mr. Bant's Inoculatioa they ibon were well.

I fhou'd have inoculahad no Effect, upon him ted him again on the 8th or 9th Bay, but that a :

Gentlewoman declar'd that fhe had ieen him fick of the Small-Pox when a Child ^ his Mother having been dead fome time, few remember'd any thing of it.

I inoculated Mr. John Pierpont, about 27 Years old ; he had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a very diftindt Sort, an InflammaThroat, gave him fome UnDays after Eruption ; filling the of Pock the Inflammation but upon he foon recover'd, and did well. went off, and tion attending his

eafinefs for three or four

Mr. Edward Darr's other three Children, one of 9, and one of 7 Years, and the other about 18 Months old, hisServantMan2o, an Indian Girl about 1 7 Years old. Mr. Dart would have had thefe five inoculated when he I inoculated

and the three Children were,but that I refus'd to But for theConvenience of nurfing, do it then. they were put into one Chamber, and for better Stowage, two or three in one Bed, ( the End of the Chamber being partitioned off for a private Lodging,in which was laid the Indian Girl) and by the time the firrt three were broken out a or two, the other five began their Sicknefs.

Here was a melancholy Sight indeed ; I had often three or four, but never nine in a Room together j the poor Children with their fickneft tod the Winter's Cold, prov'd frowa*d, one cry-

Pay

26)

(

one wanted Drink, aning, another coughing other to do its Needs ; one to get up, another to go to Bed, and fo on ; fo that together with opening and (hutting the Doors, the gingling of -,

the Warming-pan, Fire-fhovel and Tongs, there was fcarce a Minute in the 24 Hours that all was Hill and quiet. They all had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and ot the diflind Sort: Mr. Dorr was full, his Pock inflam'd and his Fever too high This, with his great Concern for his Childien,the continualNoife, and Want of Sleep, made the poor Gentleman almoft diftra&ed, which obliged me to bleed him twice, to apply Epifpaftics, ufe Anodines, %2c at the turning of the Pock, the Symptoms went off. The Indian Girl was taken ill the 7th with a gentle Fever, which continued to the 9th, when the Small-Pox came out upon her of a kind, diftinct Sort, Ihe having about twenty in her Face, fo that me was eafy, and laughed, as I found her half naked, fitting up in the Bed. The 10th I vifited the Family late in the Evening, and the Nurfe faid the Indian was very dull, and did not care to fpeak ; I found her very ill, the Pock funk in, her Pulfe too frequent and uneven I order'd her near a Fire, and many Means were ufed to get the Pock out again, but to no purpofe ; for fhe died before Morning. Two of the Children were a little fuller than ordinary, complain'dofSorenefs,^. the other five had it very favourably, and eight of the nine recovered, and did very well. The :

:

Small-Pox had broken out in Mr. Dorr's Houfe before any of thtrn wtce inoculated Tho* I be :

licve

C*7) was no ways infe&ed before by taking Cold and ftriking n the

lieve the IndiatiGirl

but was loft

i

She was a weakly Girl, fubjecl: to Humours breaking out upon her Years' before.

30th, I inoculated Mr. Thomas Smithy io Mr. 5 John Smithy 17, Mr. Thomas Goodwin^ 16, at Cbarlefttown Mr. Br after about 31, his Wife '35 and four, of their Children, viz. one of 8 one of 6, one of 3 Years, and one of nine Months old ; Mrs Wire about 50, and Son 14, Mr. Webb's two Children, one of 2 Years, and the other 10 Months old, Mrs. Hendry 25 Years,and her Child 15 months old j All thefe Fifteen had the SmallPox at the ufual time, and of a very diftincl: and kind Sort.

The three firft were in Baftun^ whom I often faw, Mr. John Smith had but 3 Puftules that fill'd and turn'd, and but one of them very Fair, fo that I can't call this a perfect Small-Pox tho' I know not why thefe may not defend him for the Future, as well as if he had had but one or two in the natural way,the other two but very few : The twelve at Charleftown I faw but twice in all their Illnefs, I was fo engaged in Bofton and Koxbury however, they all foon recover^ ed, and did well.

December the ift, I inoculated Mrs. Foy 27, Mrs. White 24, and their Negro Boy 6, Mrs. Elizabeth Calf 16, her Sifter I4,and Capt.Langdon, 26 Years old 9 at Roxbury,Mrs. Scarbrough 9 Widow, 67, her Son Jtfeph Scarbrough 34, and Daughter Bethiah 22, Mr. timothy Parker 26, Mr. Stephen Chute 22, Mr. Searl's Servant Boy 16, Mr. Scarbrough's Man, about 20 Years old.

Twelve of thefe had the Small- ÂŁox at the ufual Pock.

:

-,

F

2

Time

:

(28) Time, and of the diftinct Kind, the fix at Bofton had each but few, and the Symptoms The four Men and the old Genvery gentle tlewoman at Koxbury were fuller,& their Symptoms a little harfh, viz. Pains in their Head, or Bones ; fick, or opprels'd at Stomach ; and the old Gentlewoman complain'd of being faint And but little good Reit, or Sleep, did they get for three or four Days and Nights, four in one Room, and two in another, and but one Nurfe But theie Sympfor them all,and fhe a Toper. ripen'd the Pox toms abated as ^ and as they Boy The had but few tuin'd, they went off. in Number, and the Symptoms gentle. All thefe twelve foon recovered, and did well. Mrs. Bethiab Scarbrough had her Illnefs begun the 7th Day, a gentle Fever, and fo contiuued until the 9th, when her Fever encreafed, and fhe complain'd of her Head, Back, &c. as is ufual, and no more no Pox yet appearing ; fhe had Blifters order'd, and other Means prefcrib'd to bring out the Pox, and that fhe mould be kept warm in Bed, and fo I left her that Night.

The next :

-,

Night I found her f"unexpecl:edly,in herCloaths) upon the Bed, faint and weak, with a faultering, weak, and dangerous Pulfe ; and theNurfe told me her Courfcs were upon her, and that fhe could not keep her in Bed. I did the beit I could for .her, ( being late at Night, and no Shop at Hand ) but to no Effect $ fhe died before Morning.

She had been feveral Years, as her Mother and others told me, a very fickly young Woman, and never well. In fhort, thro' my great Hurry, fhe was poorly Do&or'd, and badly

C*0 and

badly Nurs'd,

came

fo

me

died before the

Pox

out.

2d,

Madam

inoculated

I

Davenport about 40

Daughter Mrs. Lucia 6, Madam fbaeber 40, Mr. Philip Serle, 61, his Wife 63, their Daughter 24, Mr. Edmond Wells 58. his Wife 54, their Daughter 19, their Son 16. Mr. Elias Monk 30, and three of his Children, one 6, one 4, and the other 2 Years old ; the 3 firft in Bo-

her

little

pn,

the other

Bcfton

1 1

at

Roxbury.

T hofe three in at the ufual Time,

&

had the Small-Pox

of a kind, they foon Mi?nk 9 and Pox at the and the

diftinct Sort,

were

their

Symptoms

eafy,

Mr. Serle, Wells's Son, Children, had the Small-

well.

his three

ufual Time, of a very Symptoms moderate.

diftinct Sort,

Mr. Wells, Daughter, and Mr. Serle's Daughter, had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of the

his

diftinct Sort,

but a

little fuller,

and

their

Com-

of Pain and Sorenefs, Want of Reft, &c. which at the turning of the Pox, went off; and all thefe nine, in a little Time, recover'd and did well.

Mrs. Wells was a very weakly Gentlewoman, always complaining and of an ill Habit of Eody, and fo very fplenetick as often to be deprived of Reafon ; and for many Years not capable of managing her Family Affairs. She had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a very diftinct Sort, and the Symptoms continued moderate for the firft: five Days, fave that the cold Weather pinched her very much ; the 6th, 7th, and 8th Days me was more uneafy, flept but little, grew faint and weaker, the cold Weather affeding her ftill plaints greater, viz.

more

C3o) more, and the native Heat declining apace jthe Pock not filling, (he funk under it, and died the 9th from Eruption, and the 17th from her InciMrs. Serle^ like wife, was an ailing old fions.

Woman, Hyfterical, Splenetic, and of an ill Hafhe had the Small-Pox at the wfubit of Body al Time, and of a very diitindt Sort ; the Symptoms were moderate, though Ihe was often complaining of one Uneafinefs or other, as is common in the Small-Pox, and the cold Weather, Thus fhe continulikewife, affected her much. ed until the Pock fill'd and turn'd, & the Scabs caft off; one Day a little better, and another worfe ; fometimes up, and other times in Bed -,

:

ThePerfpirations being ftopp'd by the cold Weather, a Complication of Humours being put in Motion, at laft fell upon her Bowels, She had a Purging three or four Days, which carried her off! She died the 24th from Eruption, and the 3 3d from Inoculation.

All thefe 1 1 at R<?xbury had Jiv'd in the Way of Infection about three Weeks before inoculated.

6th, I inoculated Mr. Bradford^ 25, Mr. Jofepb Belcher about 22, his Brother, 18, Mr. J of Richards 22, and Mr. Cary 21 Years old j thefe five had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a good diftinct Sort, not many in Number, nor were the Symptoms harm they complain'd of Sorenefs, and the Weather pin ch'd them,but they pafs'd foon through it,and did well. Thefe were of Dedham, and inoculated at Koxhiry.

8th, I inoculated, at Bflfton, Mrs. Harris about 22 Years old 5 fhe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of the diitin& Kind, and a

&

-,

pretty

(30 handfome Sprinkling ; me was very vaand timorous 3 full of Complaints, when 1 was abfent ; but when prefent, had few or She foon was well. none.

I inoculated, at Roxbury, Mr. Samuel Williams about 64, his Wife 62, his Son 36, his Daughter 22, Dr. Elijah Danfortb, 35, and Mr. Bafs 27 ; all thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual time, and of a kind, diftinct Sort, and but few in Number. The old Gentleman, thro* the cold Weather, had an Inflammation in his Wrifts, where he was Inoculated, which gave him much The Doctor, by Pain, and me fome Trouble. the Cold, had a Tumour in the Axilla^ which came to Suppuration. Except thefe two Accidents, (which foon afterward were cured) they were very favourably dealt with, and foon well.

pretty

pourifh

-

9th, I inoculated, in Bojlon, Mrs. Turell about 32, and a Negro Boy 10 Years old j they both

had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of the

and kind Sort ; their Symptoms gentle, they foon were well.

1 2th, I inoculated, at Roxbury, Capt, Jo fepb JMayhew about 57, and his Grandfon 11 Years old j they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, and of a kind, diftinct Sort ; the Symp-

diftind

toms gentle, they foon were well. !8th, I inoculated, at Raxbury, Mr. Samuel Stevens's two eldeft Daughters, one of about 11, and the other 6 Years old ; they both had the Small-Pox at the ufualTime,and of a kind diftinct Sort ; their Symptoms gentle, they foon were well.

20th,

%

C

32)

2oth,I inoculated,at Roxbury, Mr. Bernard' 17 Years old ; fhe had been at her

Maid about

fome Time

Father's

to efcape the Infection

\

ta-

king cold, fhe complained of her Head and Bones; they concluding fhe was taken with the SmallPox, fent her back to her Mailer to have it there, and fhe was put into an infected Room and Bed, and I was defir'd to take the care of her. After fhe had been kept warm about 48 Hours, her 5 Complaints were gone, and now, thro Fear, flic wou'd be inoculated ; fhe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diitindt Sort, ( about 200 in all ) the Symptoms gentle, fhe ibon was well.

24th, I inoculated Capt. Mayhew's Maid about 18 Years old ; She had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind, diitincl: Sort, the Symptoms gentle, fhe foon was well.

26th, I inoculated Mr. Samuel Stevens's two other Children, one 4, the other 2 Years old,and Mr. Barnard's Son 4 Years old j they had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of a kind,diltin& Sort, fe

\v

in

Number, and

the

Symptoms

being

gentle, they foon were well.

January the 28th, 17 21- 2, I inoculated, at Cambridge, Madam Goff about 45, her Nephew 12, her Maid 27, the Maid's Child 2, their Man 30, Servant Girl 15, and Mr. Stephen Hall of Charlfivwn, about 27 ; fix of thefe had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time, of the difiind Sort; and their Smptoms moderate ^ all thefe foon did well.

Upon Madam Goff it had no Effect ; it appear'd afterwards, ( by one that

remembred) that Infancy.

fhe

had the Small-Pox

in her

February

C

SO

February the 8th, I inoculated.,in Charkfiown y

Mr. Kettle of 26, and his Wife of 23 Years old % they both had the Small-Pox at the uiual Time, ef a kind, diltincl Sort, their

Symptoms

gentle,

and they foon did well.

23d, I inoculated, atCharhftown, the Reverend Mr. IVt llar d of Rutland, 30 Years old ; he had the Small- Pox at the uiual Time, of a moft kind, ;

diltinct Sort,

gentle,

few

in

Number, and

the Symptoms

he foon was well.

24th, I inoculated, at Charhjlown, Mrs, Hall about 22 Years, her Child about 14 Months old > they both had the Small-Pox at the ufual Time,

and of the

diltincl:

vernable, refufed

Sort

:

Mrs. Hall was ungo-

Management and

Medicine",

expos'd herfelf in caring for her Child,

and took

Cold, which brought on new Complaints, viz.

Pain and a Swelling in her right Thigh ; which Swelling continuing, encreas'd her Thigh to a large Bulk, and which fuppurated, and upon opening, difcharged a great Quantity of undigeft-

ed Pus ; upon which me became eafy, (theSmall* Pox being favourable, was now turn'd and gone.)

Her Fears prevented me laying open the Sinus y Milk, I order'd large Poultices of white Bread Bandage, to be apwith fuitable Comprefs ply'd once or twice a Day, as the Cafe mighe fimple Means alone; require j which Method

&

&

&

in ten

Days

or a Fortnight's

Time compafled and

The Child's Symptoms compleated the Cure. was well. were favourable, foon it May the nth, I inoculated Mr. Samuel Sezv all her two Sons, of about 34, Mrs. Sew all 30, ffoffflbridge 13* one io, theother 8 3 Hv.Benjamiif

&

&

C30 and Mvs.Joanna Alford 20 Years old ; Mr.SewaH was a weakly Gentleman, often ill, and thought by many Confumptive ; & all the other five of tender Conftitutions.

many

Difficulties

&

And

notwithftanding the

hard Shifts they were put

to, in being remov'd fome Days after inoculated to an Ifland to have the Small-Pox there, the Particulars too tedious to be related here, but

known

in Bofton, yetthefeallhadtheSmallPox at the ufual Time, and of a diftinct Sort.

Thofe three who were capable of reflecting on

well

their Treatment, fuffered twice as much as the other three did ; but all their Symptoms proving

gentle, they all did well.

The Small-Pox now leaving us, Inoculation ; and when it mall pleafe Providence to

ceas'd

fend

& fpread that Diftemper

amongfl us again,

may

Inoculation revive, be better received, and continued a Bleffing, in preferving many more Death. from Mifery, Corruption, There were in the Towns near Bofton about 36 Perfons more inoculated, which all did well, fe& by Dr. Koby about 11, and by Dr. tfbompfon about 28, which together with my 247, make up the Number of 286, out of which Number died only fix perfons, notwithftanding all the Difficulties this Practice laboured under, &c.

Now if there be any one that can give a faithful Account or Hiftory of any other Method of Practice that has carried fuch a Number, of all Ages, Sexes, Conftitutions, and Colours, and in the worft Seafons of the Year, thro' the Small Pox ; or, indeed, thro' any other acute Diftem-

&

per with better Succefs, then I will alter

my Opinioa

3S5

C pinion of this

and until then, I

{hall value anc! inoculating the SmallPox, as the moft beneficial and fuccefsful that ever was difcover'd to, and pra&ifed by Man-

eiteem this

;

Method of

kind in this World.

In the Year 1721, and Beginning of 172*. there were, in Bafton, 5759 Perfons who had the Small-Pox in the natural Way,out of which Number died 844, ( this Account I took from one of our Prints, publifhed by Authority ) fo that the Proportioathat died of the naturalSmal!

Pox there, appears to be one in fix, or between feven. that of fix

&

The

following Table will fhew the Difference between the Succefs of the natural Small-Pox^ and that of the inoculated, in New* England.

O

a

Their

'

1

1

C 34 5 jTheirAges. Perfons in

Had a per- Hadanlm- Had no perfeft

feft Small-

oculated.

Pox by

In-

Effccl.

Small-Pox

of Inoculation.

oculation.

From o Mon.to 2

Sufpefted to have died

07

07

CO

00

00

00 00 00

00 00 00 00

00 00 00

years old

Z to

5

14

14

to

ic

16"

io to 15 15 to 20

29 48

16 29 47

20 50

to

30

6-7

<?5

to

40

44

42

40

to

50

$0 to 6a 60 to 67

oS 07 07

q6

Total

247

242

39

5

01

00 00 oo 00

02 C2

or 01 or

OI

00 02

00

or

01

06

06

39

QO

00

00

281

OI

06

06

37

°1

00

—

OI

—_X—

Inocula-.

tedbyDrs^ &o&y and in #<;**.

(

£#ry and

Qambrige

Total

286

I

It appears by the foregoing Table, that Inoculation upon fix Perfotfs did not produce the

Small-Pox, by Reafon they had had it before.

And that out of 286, fix died, though they had not all the Small-Pox only by Inoculation, as we have Reafon to believe, but were fome of

them infected in the natural Way, before Inoculated.

And it further appears by our Practice

in

New-England, that

if

a

Number

of Perfons

( 35

J

be inoculated, of all Ages and Conand even fome of them living amongft the Infected and in the worft Seaibns of the Year, without Exception, as was our cafe, then the Proportion that dies under Inoculation may

jfotis

ftiou'd

stitutions,

is my Opinion, can judge, from Experience too, that a Peribn may be infe&ed in the natural Way, four or five Days, if not longer, before inoculated ; and yet go the ufual

be one in 46, or thereabout.

from Reafon, and

It

as far as I

Time of nine Days before Eruption.

And

it is

further my Opinion, that a Ptrlbn maybe ferved by Inoculation, if not infected above a

Day

or

And

two before Inoculated.

the

Rea-

: fuch my Infpiration received by Infection 1. That the .does not fo immediately enter into, and ferment the Blood and other Juices of the Body, as that does which we inoculate, or apply to the opened Blood and other VeiTels in the Incifion. does immedi2. That this inoculated Infection

Opinions are

fons for

ately enter in,

Quality to the

(by

Mafs

and communicate

Mouths Humours

the of

as followeth

its

Leaven

like

of the divided VeiTels) And if in the Body.

will ferment and the Smallbring put them into Motion, and Time that the Pox out in about two Thirds of the before that Natural ufually does ; and

any there be of that Kind,

it

the

have deep, fecret, and hidden Fermentations Particles the had Time to divide and fubdivide Mixture deof that Humour, and by a greater the conprave the other Juices, fo as to produce a Diffeis I believe alfo that there fluent Sort.

Infection, viz. rence between the Particles of

thole

Way, being more volatile, be more malignant, than thofe contain'd in And that the Pus or Matter of the Puftules : if there were no Difference in the Malignity of the Infection ; yet as Inoculation communicates the Infection to an Out-fide and firmer Part of our Body, the Malignity may (being ftrain'd thro' fo many minute Veffels) lofe part of its Force, before it reach the more principalParts, and that a part of that Infection may be difcharged by the Incifions back again Whereas in the natural Way, our Noflrils,Throat,Mouth, Lungs, and Stomach are the firft Parts infect5 ed i or thro which the Infection pafTes, and which are frequently the Parts that molt complain.

And there may be fomething allow'd me (from Experience) on this Head, when I declare, that amongft the whole Number that I 3 inoculated, tho many of them amidft the ftifling Heat of Infection, and in the extream hot and cold Weather ; yet not above three or four Perfons had their Throats very fore, and their Mouths filFd, and Noftrils ftop'd with the Pock andScabs,as are common in the natural Way. And I dare appeal to all that have been in thisPractice, whether they have met with fuch aCafe,except the Perfon has been firft infected in the natural Way; which, indeed, may be a hard thing to determine, in any Place, where the Small-Pox may have been before the Perfon was inoculated. And yet notwithftanding what I have faid, as to leffening ihe Danger of a prior Infection, I would have the utmofl Care taken to prevent Infection be-

thofe in the natural

may

:

fore Inoculation

:

However,

that

may

be of Service,

C 37 > Cafe a Perfon may have beenfoexpos'd, There is cither thro* Ignorance, or Neceflity. a faying ; that one Sort of Small-Pox the Nurfe can t kill the Patient with and likewife another Sort, that all the Phyficians cannot cure the It will be eafy for any one to guefs Patient of. what thofe two Sorts are, 'viz. the Diftinct, and

vice, in

â&#x20AC;˘>

, thefe two are put in Oppofition one another, as being the Extreams of each, viz. the beft and worft Sort, or Kind of that DiBut however favourable the Smallftemper.

Pox appear to be, there mull be Care taken of the Sick, and not only in this, but in all acute Difeafes ; and efpecially in thofe call'd Eruptive Fevers, by Reafon they are more expos'd to Accidents, as taking Cold, &!c. flatting, or ftriking in the Pock, or producing fome other Symptom, which has coft many thoufands their Lives : Tho' the Small-Pox, Mealies, or any other Fever the Patient had, may have feem'd very gentle and eafy ; yet with a fmall Accident they are And who wou'd have tho't it, fnatch'd away.

But fo fays the Nurfe, if not the Doctor too. it is, has, and will be, if not thro* great Care, Skill, and Pains, prevented.

Now Inoculation, at the worft, is but a Medium between the two Extreams, provided it be done according to Art, and the Patient be clear from a prior Infection ; I fay, it prevents the worft, and generally procures the beft, or a kind> diftinct Sort of Small-Pox. And pray let us confider what this Method, in procuring the diftinct Small- Pox, does prevent ; it prevents the confluent, which, in itfelf, is a Plague,

the Confluent

to

( 38 )

Plague,and that in a high Degree iome of the bad Symptoms attending which, are as fblloweth Purple Spots, the bloody and parchment Pox, Hemorahages of Blood at the Mouth, Nofe, Fundament, and Privities 5 Ravings and Deliri;

I

Convulfions, and other Fits 5 violent inflammations and Swellings iri the Eyes and Throat ; fo that they cannot fee, or fcarcely breathe^or iwallow any thing,to keep them from Some looking as black as the Stock, ftarving. others as white as a Sheet ; in fbme, the Pock

ums

j

runs into Blifters, and the Skin ftripping t)f$ leaves the Flefh raw, like Creatures fiea'd. Some have a burning, others a imarting Pain, as if in Some the Fire, orfcalded with boiling Water have infatiable TMrlb, others greedy Appetites, and will crave Food when dying. Some have been fill'd with loathfomc Ulcers < others have :

had deep, and fiftulous Ulcers in their Bodies, or in their Limbs or joints, with Rottennefs of Some who live are the Ligaments and Bones many-blind all their Idiots, and othets Cripples, it brings upon Deformities Days i befide the other Body, with or Limbs, many, in their Faces, the World Symptoms,which many more grievousbeing the as has had too great Experience of, :

Attendants of that fatal Diitemper called the Confluent Small-Pox. What this Humour of the Small-Pox, in us, or when, and how it is communicated to us, If from the Learned have not yet inform'd us. our Parents, then how fhou'd fuch as have had the Small-Pox before ( and confequently thert have it not in them give it to tbeir -Children r is,

)

NettM

(39) Neither are Infants in the Womb freed from that Diftemper, altho' the Mother have the Small-Pox while the Child is there.

However otherways it may be, this is certain, that as it is a moit loathfome, painful, and deitruo tive Diftemper j fo Providence has wifely and â&#x20AC;˘mercifully order'd it, that once only, in our Lives, we fhall be diftrefs'd by it ; has now, in greater Goodnefs, difcover'd to us a Way

&

Method how

moderate that Diftemper, 8e Small-Pox, inoculated, no further dangerous than a common intermittent Fever, under the prudent ufe of its fpecifick Bark. And fhall not the World gratefully accept, & thankfully make ufe of fuch aMethod, (when known) & efpecially Great Britain, which has had fo much Experience of its good EfTe&s, and that for five Yens following ? Shall not they come fully into, take the Benefit of it ? And fhall not thePhyficians, who are theMedicinal Guides, with the Surgeons, recommend and bring it into greater Efteem Practice, fave ( under God ) thoulands and ten thoufands by it ; &ÂŁ make further Improvements in it ; fet more vigoroufly about it, when they confider their or

to

to render the

&

&

&

&

great Pattern

and Example

for itfvtx. the great-

and wifeft of Kings, their Royal Highneflfes the Prince and Princefs at the Head of it ; that it has been ufed upon their Royal IiTue eft

&

with great Succcfs

?

The Small-Pox in the natural Way, has not been lefs fatal to Royal Blood, than it has been meaner Subjects ; and Examples 3 and fuch great

to their

great

H

fhall

not fuch

Succefs, influ-

ence

(4째) enee the World, give Credit to, and recommend a Practice which is fo very valuable in it felf, as that none other can compare with it > When the World has had Experience of the good Effe&s of this Method, it will no longer remain a Doubt ; but it will be made uie of, and acknowledged to be the moll certain procurative Means to produce the better Sort ; & the only preventive Remedy againft the worft and. confluent Sort.

And it is, and fhall be acknowledged, to the that whereas a moft Praife and Glory of God wild, cruel, fierce, and violent Diftemper, and which has deftroy'd Millions of Lives, is now ( by that happy Difcovery made of its Tranfplantation ) become traceable, fafe, and gentle.

And it may be further faid of this Pra&icc, that if it were not to lave the Life of one fingle Perfon in the Small-Pox, yet inafmuch as it laves from lofs of Eye-fight, a Senfe & Ornament fo very valuable and dear to us, and from other Deformities, and from abundance of Pain and Milery to the Sick, and from a great deal of Diitrefs, Charge, and Trouble to the Well i fo it would, or ought to be thought, a valuable Practice, by fome at leaft.

Notwithstanding we recommend this Method to be lb very favourable in it lclf ; yet however, there ought and mult be juft Allowance given, why fome are fuller, and have more complaints than others 3 as fome may have it, more than others, in the Difpofition of their Blood, and other Juices, to produce larger Crops, ajid to jbring on 3 and fubjeft them to more \

:

<4i more

)

& worfe Complaints than others that

thole

come

-

y

nnd more

into the

Practice with filled other Difeafes, not to menor loaded thouiand Accidents we are expos'd to, ten tion lefs, each Day we live.

And fnall Inmore or especially

oculation be charg'd witl^and

No

:

It

anfwer

fhou'd rather be confider'd,

for thefe

how much

might have fared with them, if they had happened to have had it in the natural Way. And tho it is look'd upon as Criminal, while now the Practice is but young, to ufe it upon infirm, and fickly Perfons ; yet where fuch Perfons are in Danger of taking the Infection in

worfe

it

J

the natural Way, I think

it

much more

criminal to

them to the Cruelty of a mercilefs Diftemper, who have a much lefs Chance to get well thro' it, than thole who are of a more healthful and ftronger Conftituti^ But where they can be preferv'd from both, on.

I think it highly juli and neceffary that they fhou'd. Women with Child, I wou'd have them to avoid the Smalls-Pox every way, but if they cannot, let them receive it by Tranfplantation,

refufe fuch Subjects,

and

trait

and it is my opinion that to fave the fruit, it wou'd be bell in the middle or later Months than before,and to fave the Mother,at any time, I rather than to have it in the natural Way. this whole Account with fome fhall conclude Directions, which may be of Ufe and Service to the Unexperienced, in managing the inoculated Small-Pox, viz.

;

<40 you wou'd inoculate are of ill Habits of Body, let them be firft purged, vomited,& bled ; one or other of thefe, if not all, as their Circumftances may require, and repeated,

F

the Perfons

I

may be Occafion, once, twice, or oftener for fome Time, and that a Fortdieted be and lefs, as you may think proper, or night, more done taking Phyfick, &c. that have after they to recruit, and their Bodies Time have they may you bring a Diftemper before to become fettled

as there

on them.

If they are of healthful Conrtitutions,it may be as well to inoculate them without any previous Preparation ; for if they are ever fo well prepared, yet a fmall Accident may happen to put them into fuch Diforders, or fuch Symptoms may ariie, as may call for Bleeding, Vomiting, &c. although thefe have been ufed but juft before 2.

:

would obferve that in all my Number, there was not ten that had any Medicinal Preparation before the Operation was made upon

And

I

them.

3.

Take your Medicine or Pus from the

ripe

Puflules of the Small-Pox, of the diftind Kind ; either from thole in the natural Way, or from the inoculated Sort, provided the Perfon be

otherwife healthful, and the Matter good. The Time when this Matter is fitteft to be taken, is .uncertain; in fome it maybe on the 9th, others 611 the nth, 1 2th, 13th, or 14th, Day after Eruption,

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Eruption, and two, three, or four Pox is turn'd upon them ; the belt

Days

after the white, even, and thick, and without lmeJl. Way of taking fine cut fharp Tooth-pick, it, is thus : Take a ( which will not put thePeifon in any Fear, as is

My

a Lancet will do many ) and open the Pock on prefs the Boil, and lcoop the Matter one fide, lo on in your Quill When your Quill is full,

&

&

empty

:

into a clean

dry Viol, and io take what you can, or what you have Occafion for ; which keep cloie ftopp'd for Ufe, and in a cool Place, except you are going to ufe it prefently ; for Heat it

&

deitroys it.

And fo long as it white Colour, and even Confiltence, and that without fmell, you may depend it is good.

And when it is otherwife,throw it away, warn your Viol very clean, or take a new one, before you gather any more.

foon ferments retains

its

The

Places I have made choice of to inocufor the Convenience of dreffing, are, viz. upon the outfide of the Arm above the Elbow, and the infide of the Leg near, or in the 4.

late in,

Place

where

I flues

are

commonly made

;

and two

one Subject. Let the Ineifions be made with a good Lancet thro the true Skin, ( by pinching of it up between your Fingers ) a-crofs the Fibres, and about a quarter of an Inch long, fuch as would receive a common Pea in cafe you were to make an Ifl*ue,and drop one full Drop (after wiping off the Blood) into the Incifion ; or moiften a fmall bit of Lint Incifions are fufficient for

5

in

the Matter,

and put that

into the Incifion,

applying

C44> applying over it a fimple.Diachylon PlairTer,and gently bind it on with a Comprefs, Fillet, or Koller, and keep them in the Houfe, and from the Air.

next, and fo every Day, drefs with with Cabbage or Colewort bring them to runtodigeit,or order in Leaves, 5.

The

the fame

Plailter, or

ning Sores.

If at any Time an Inflammation mould arife in or about the Jncifions, or Pain and Swelling in the Arm-pit or Groin, apply hot Poultices *nade of white Bread and Milk, to the Sores, ( and Swellings, if any /there be ) twice a day at leaft i and fo continue them until the Inflammations, Pain, and Swellings go off or difappear, which, if you keep your Patient warm, will be accomplifh'd foon ; continue thofe Applications fome Days after, leait the Symptoms fhoiM return.

6. After they are inoculated, until the 4th or 5th Day, ( unlefs they are ill before ) let them eat and drink, fparingly, fuch Diet as ufually they did before, and take gentle Exercife in

theirChamber.

When

the Illnefs comes on, be it fooner or with later, Sicknefs or Shiverings, flufhing Heats, wandering, or other Pains, &c. keep them warmer, and from Flefli and Fifh of all Sorts, and Cheefe and Milk too And if they appear much 7.

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out

(45

)

out of Order, put them to and let them reii

Bed, darken the Room, let them take all their Food, as Spoon-meat hot, and Drink aired ; and if it be a young Child, it may have a Milk Diet, or Milk in its Pap or Gruel, &c.

Now

.

Let their Drink be Water with a well 8. brown'd Toart in it, Barly-Water, or about a Thimbleful of Oatmeal, and four Spoonfuls of Milk boil'd in a Quart of good foft Water, or common Teas, as they may belt fuit your Patient's Palate and Stomach ; and ibme may be allow'd good White-Wine in their Drink, more orlefs, as their

Stomach may

require, fupporting

them with innocent Spoon-Meats, and other Harmlefs Diet, and wait on. Nature, obferving the Indications

which

fhe

may

give -you, and

ad accordingly ; that is, if (he is oppreft in any Part, and is not able to help herfelf, affift her ^ leave her to but if fhe is not fo oppreft, when the bell: Phyfician, fhe is herfelf, for under, it in let be err, you And if able. rather than in over-doing, for fuch Errors are eafier to reconcile, or be recovered than the others

9.

are.

Their Illnefs does ufually begin on the

fome few on the 7th Day after Inoculation, and the Small-Pox break out on the 9th ; it happens fometimes to break out on other If your Patient has Days, tho' but feldom. been ill two Days, and full of Complaints j the a* for Inftance, taken ill on the 6th, and 6th,

Pox

C 46 ) out upon the 9th, give a gentle Vomit, either in the Morning or the Evening And if the Small-Pox does not come out in 4, 6, or 8 Hours after, and the other Symptoms do not abate, apply ibme bliftering PJaiiters, and, if Occafion, fome drawing Applications to the Feet, and renew them daily unSymptoms til the Patient is relieved, and the are gone off.

And for the better coming, and keeping out of the Pox, let them have Virginian Snake-root, or Sheep's Dung Teas between whiles, or a little Saffron or Gafcoim's

Pox not

:

Powder,

ÂŁiV.

10. If they are hot and thirfty, and the drinking plentifully of hot Teas,or other cooling lmall Drinks (as they may crave ) does not take off thofe Symptoms, and there appear Signs of Inflammation, take away fome Blood, as the Age

ltrensith of the Patient mav admit of, and the Cafe require.

You may bleed them, if full of Blood, and the Symptoms urgent, at any Time, via.' at the coming out, filling, or turning of the Pox.

and

11.

Your chief Care in

this

Method mould

be

beginning of their Sicknefs, to govern the Symptoms ( if any bad ones mould arife ) in time, and to fee that the Small-Pox does well come out ; which you may know by the Patient's Eafe and Quiet ( except they are uneafy by their Sorenefs, which is not to be regarded ) in order to accomplifh which when wanting, ? your at the

C47 J Vomit and

bliftering Plaifters, and fomeyour Lancet, will be of great Service t But be very careful in your Vomits, left the/ over-work, weaken, and hurt your Patient^ and your Reputation too You had better

your

times

:

give the Patient three or four, than one too ftrong ; therefore, if poflible, be fure to know

Antimonial are better than Ve* 5 Vomits, tho not fo fafe and gentle.

12. Do not be too free with Anodines, Or? Pacificks, at the Beginning of the Diftem* more efpecially, until there be propel? per ; Evacuation made And if your Patient mould be attended with more Fever than is neceflary, and want Reft, give a Spoonful of the following oily Mixture, every four or five Hours, making the Viol well eachTime of taking* your Vomit. gitable

:

of Oil of Sweet Almonds, nets) drawn, and Syrup of Marjb Mallows , of each two ot three Ounces, mint in a Viol,

itake

Or if yourPatient requires fomething more warm* Cordial,

& driving out, give them this,as follows^

of ^treacle and Plague Water, of each fix Sweet y Hack Cherry Water, Oil of Almonds, and Syrup of Violets, of each one

ttake

Drachms

Ounce $ of Britifli Saffron, in Powder, ten Grains tfincJure of Cafior, one Drachm y mint in a Viol.

-,

Let the Patient take of this, as there m?.y be Occafion, fooner or later in the Diftemper^ at proper Intervals of Time, a fpoonful, more or

lefs.

at once,

\& three, four,

I

or five

Hours Time*

C40 Time, obferving to make the Viol each Time of taking. If your Patient naufeates oily Mixtures, give this in

lieu

of that above,

viz.

ttake of Milk, or black Cherry Water, three Ounces ; treacle, or Plague Water, one

Water, three Antimony, and, Drachms 3 Gafcoin'j Powder, each half a Drachm $ Loaf Sugar, fix Drachms, mint in a Viol.

Ounce

j

compound

Piony

Diaphoretick

If yourPatient wants a Stool,procure one with a Suppofitory ; if too loofe, check or flop it ; their being a little bound may be well, but their being loofe ( except in Infants ) may be hurtful.

13. However, when there is a real Occafion for Anodines, you murl give them as in other Diftempers ; but Note, that there is not a Neceflity for their common Ufe here, as is prefcribed in the natural Small-Pox ; for this inocuJated Small-Pox does not affe<2L the Brain and Vifcera, or corrupt the Blood and other Juices, as the natural commonly does.

And in many there is no more Fever than is neceflary, or 0ther Symptoms, that jufHy may require fuch Medicines.

And in others, where there is a

Shew of fuch Symptoms, they may go off at tia'e coming out of the Pox, or at three or four Days after the Pox is out, and never return again, as I have often feen.

14. I have given but few Receipts, or directed to but few Medicines ; yet more, I hope, than there will be Occafion for to make Ufe of in one of twenty Patients in this Method 5 and becaufe I know there is no Want of Prefcriptions in the Small-Pox, they being already given

<49) that the Phyfician, in Cavcn by others ; and Difficulty, will ufe his own Judgment, fes of thinks moil proper to fuit and order what he help his Patient. the Cafe, and fpeaking, ( if your Patients 15. Generally tolerable Habits, and came into the are of

Practice free lhave

from a prior Infection ) you

will

but little to do, after Eruption, but to againft Accidents, and regulate the nur-

watch fme Part

and when any new Symptoms do Enquiry, and confider well arife, make diligent what Caufe they proceed 5 if you can find ;

from it

if

be near at Hand, vtz. that from any Thing you have prescribed

out, the

Remedy may

the Patient, forbid the further Uie i fomething that may fet and, if neceflary, order let that If from a Fault in Nurfing, all right or Cloathbeie&ify'd, viz. in Meat, Drink, few h and too or many ine, up or In Bed, too where Part the nurfe if they have taken cold, to Coverings more the Cold began, by adding Body, the of Part one be it in did not fuit

.

:

it warm, ( Diet and other) as well as order fuitable proper Medicine. , fave you much Such Rules well obferved,may much Pain and SicKTrouble, and the Patient many other Difeafes, nefs, and his Life too, in of the inoculated Small-Pox.

keep or

as

well as in this

taken in inoculaThere mould be great Care be good, and that ting, vix. that the Medicine the true Skin left the Incifions be made thro' f™ ltlQ the Operation mould prove other it in the take mould Patient afterward 1 had done, Wayj as two ©f mine might have

\*™J^,

\

Time, inoculated them again, and

in

tiot,

50 , fo

prevented that Misfortune, 1 In cafe you ihould have, thro ill Habits of JJody, or the like, any of your Inoculations that will not give way to, and heal with white Bread and Milk, treat them as you would do other common Sores, viz. with Fomentations and Wronger Digeftives, &c.

& TABLE by me

with the

Who

fhewing the

in each ill

Month

Number

Inoculated

in the Year 1 721

&

1

722.

Succefs attending the fame,

viz.

dyed and When,

'^une

5] 7

f&j} Juguji

17

$eptemb.

1

DixweU September Ztyh.

Mr. Dorr's Indian Girl December $tb, November 103 2 John White Efq; December loth.

December 5° nj Mrs. Bethiak Scarborough, December llth, gapuary O Mrs. Wells 1 December \%th.

7 February Mrs. Serle % Jannary jrf.

5 3

Mrs.

1

18

Oftober

.

March

pay

6 247! 6 \

my Experience In them that liv'd as well as FRom died

tliofe 5

who

in the ColdWeather, I would advifc thofe who are weak innrm,that may come into this pra&icc,and that live in a cold

and Country to zvoidNovember, December ^January

/or I havercafon to believe that if Mrs. Wells, Serle, Scarborough, and the Indian Cjrl, had been Inoculated in a

temperate or warmer Seafon, they wou\l have done well.

And it may be worthy of Noce, that in above One Hundred and Fifty Males, that were Inoculated here,

and of which Number Eighty odd ° '

cpjy one died.

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Men,

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was a melancholy day to Inoculation,in infancy, that fo many appear'd (who were fuppos'd judges ) to oppofe and condemn it, and the following Print coming out fo powerful and ftrong againft it, which was fufficient to inflame and fet almoft the whole Town and Country againft me and this Method ; and whereas it has been induilriouily fpread abroad, doingMifchief in the ^S this its

World where

it came, I thought it juft and proper to with my own Account, that it might in fome Meafure prevent thofe ill Effects for the future.

confront

it

' This zifi of July, 17 a 1. Four Clock, P. M. 'Being fummoned by Authority to appear at the ' Town-Houfe in Sofion, before the Select-Men of the faid Town, to give an Account of what might ' come to my Knowledge in Relation to the Ope*

ration called

â&#x20AC;˘

Town

The firfi

* *

Inoculation, lately practifed in this this Place.

by Dr- Soyljlone of Injlance.

A Bout twenty five Years ago I was at Cremona, in ** Italy in the French Army, where there were thirteen Soldiers upon whom this Operation was '

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performed, of which Operation four died, fix recover'd with abundance of Trouble and Care, being feiz'd with Parotidal Tumours and a large Inflarnmation in the Throat ; one of them was open'd, his Diaphragm was found livid, the Glans of the

On

Pancreas tumify'd, and the Caul gangreen'd. the other three the Operation had no Effect.

1 The Second Injlance.

1 In the Year 1701, being in Flanders, there was committed to my Care, by Monfieur Le UJuc de Guiche Col. of Dragoons,one Capt. HuffarP^aken ill of the Small-Pox, who told me in theie veryWords, Ten Tears ago I was inoculated five or fix times, wttb~ out that curjed

Mttft

Invention's taking Effett

Itbevperifi

?

He

was fo violently

upon me feized, that

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he had feveral Ulcers on his Body, efpecially one on his Arm, which occafion'd a Lamenefs thereof It was not the fault of the Care of the for Life.

Surgeon, Major of the Regiment, Z)e Guiche, and feveral other Surgeons who came frequently to vihim.

* fit

the third InflameAt the Battel of Almanza in Spain, the SmallPox being in the Army, two Mufcovite Soldiers had recover'd, the Operation performed upon them one the other receiving no Impreffion, but fix Weeks over thereafter was feiz'd with a Frenzy, fwelled all the Othat Mind to calling not They his Body. peration had been perform'd upon *him, believed It was ordered by Dr- Helthat he was poifoned.

Highnefs the Duke of Royal to bis Phyfician vetius Orleans, tDoa Larendo Sollatio, Don Centura Sarthe rera, two of the King of Spain's Phyficians, that Body mould be opened his Lungs were found ulcerated, from whence they concluded that it was the EffecT: of that Corruption which having infec?ed the Limphse, did throw it felf upon that Vital Part, which occafion'd his fudden Death.

By me, Dr. Lawrence Dalhonie, *

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The

aforegoing

claration

made

1

at the Inftance

ÂŤ

the

Town of

is

' Soften, 2 2d July, 17 21. a true Tranflation from the De-

done in French, by Dr. Dalhonde and Requeft of the Select- Men of ;

By

jBoflon.

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mil. Douglafs

c

jfof.

Marion.

Suffolk,^ Soflon, July 22d- 1711. 'the above-written being read, to 'Dr. Lawrence Dal this with honde, he made Oath to the 'truth thereof Caution, That whereas in the fecond Inftance it is faid, that the Ulcer in Capt. Hujfarfs Arm occafion* a Lamenefs thereoffor Life, the Deponent only depofed,that he believes that Lamenefs was incurable. <

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Jurat coram Nobis,

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tim. Clark, ?

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appears by numerousInftances,That it has prov'd Perfons foon after the the Death of many Operation, and brought Diflempers upon many others which have in the End prov'd deadly to 'em. * That the natural tendency of infufmg fuch malignant Filth in the Mafs of Blood, is to corrupt and if there be not a fufficient Difcharge of putrify it, that Malignity by thePlace oflncifion^or elfewhere, *

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Refolve upon a Debate held by the Phyficians of Bofton, concerning Inoculating the Small-Pox, the twenty firft Day of July, i7zi.

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'Publick Authority in the Town-Houfe o/Bofton, before His Majefty's Juflices of the Teace ( and the SeleB-Men ;the\Praffi'tionersof Phyfick an3 called them, concerninginoculabefore Surgery being tion, agreed to the following Conclufion.

At d Meeting by

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it *

* '

lays a

Foundation

for

many dangerous

That the Operation tends

to fpread

the Infection in a Place longer than wife be.

it

Difeafes.

and continue might other-

That the continuing the Operation among us likely to prove of moil dangerous Confequence. f

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By the SeleB-Men of the 'Town of 2? of on, July 2 id.

The Number of Perfons, Men, Women and Chil-

drenthat have died of the Small-Pox at Bofton, from the middle of April laft ( being brought here then by the Saltertuda's Fleet ) to the 13d of this Inftant being the hotteft and the worfl Seafen. of July (

f 1

{

is

the Year to

have any Diftemper in) are, viz.

Strangers, 3 Men, 3 dren, 1 Negro Man,

2

Men

young Men, 2 Women, 4. ChilIndian 1 Negro Woman, and 1

of thofe that have had it, lome ' are well recovered, and others in a hopeful and fair 1 Way of Recovery. fo flight It is a thoufand pities our Sele£-Men made and trifling a Reprefentation of the Small-Pox, that had always prov'd fo fatal in New- England, as they feem to have done in this Advertifement, '

Woman,

17 in all

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