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82 hence, this Practice of the Englih, if the Clergy and the Phyicians will but give them Leave to do it: Or poibly our Country Men may introduce Inoculation three Months hence in France out of mere whim, in cae the Englih hould dicontinue it thro' Ficklenes. inform'd that the Chinee have practis'd Inoculation thee hundred Years, a Circumtance that argues very much in its Favour, ince they are thought to be the wiet and bet govern'd People in the World. The Chinee indeed don't communicate this Ditemper by Inoculation, but at the Noe, in the ame Manner as we take Snuff. This is a more agreeable way, but then it produces the like Effects; and proves at the ame Time, that had Inoculation been pratis'd in France, 'twould have av'd the Lives of Thouands. LETTER XII.