Page:The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox - Benjamin Rush.djvu/8

 of pamphlets have been written upon the subject without exhausting it. There is still ample room left for the man of genius to exercise his talents for observation and reasoning upon it. The facts I mean to lay before you are so inconsiderable, compared with what still remain to be known upon this subject, that I have to request, when your knowledge in it is compleated, that you would bury my name in silence; and forget that ever I ventured to lay a single stone in this part of the fabric of science.

treating upon this subject, I shall

I. the proper subjects and seasons for inoculation.

II. describe the method of communicating the disorder.

III. consider the method of preparing the body for the small-pox.

IV. mention the treatment proper during the eruptive fever; and,

V. out a few cautions that are necessary after the disease is over. I. -