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Rh milder Sort, and the Putles have only a tender, delicate Skin to break thro', they never leave the leat Scar in the Face. From thee natural Obervations they concluded, that in cae an Infant of ix Months or a Year old, hould have a milder Sort of Small-Pox, he wou'd not die of it, would not be mark'd, nor be ever afflicted with it again.

order therefore to preerve the Life and Beauty of their Children, the only Thing remaining was, to give them the Small-Pox in their infant Years. This they did, by inoculating in the Body of a Child, a Putle taken from the mot regular, and at the ame Time the mot favourable Sort of Small-Pox that could be procur'd.

Experiment cou'd not poibly fail. The Turks, who are People of good Sene, oon adopted this Cutom, inomach that at this Time there is not a Baa in Contantinople, but communicates the Small-Pox to his Children of both Sexes, immediately upon their being wean'd.

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