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74 die one Time or other of the Small-Pox. But that the Reader may be able to judge, whether the Englih or thoe who differ from them in opinion, are in the right, here follows the Hitory of the fam'd Inoculation, which is mention'd with o much Dread in France. Circaian Women have, from Time immemorial, communicated the Small-Pox to their Children when not above ix Months old, by making an Inciion in the arm, and by putting into this Inciion a Putle, taken carefully from the Body of another Child. This Putle produces the ame Effect in the arm it is laid in, as Yet in a Piece of Dough: It ferments, and diffues through the whole Mas of Blood, the Qualities with which it is impregnated. The Putles of the Child, in whom the artificial Small-Pox has been thus inoculated, are employ'd to communicate the ame Ditemper to others. There is an almot perpetual Circulation of it in Circaia; and when unhappily the Small-Pox has quite left the Country, the habitants