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 INTRODUCTION. FR O M the time that I entered into the pra&ice of medicine, and faw the danger to which die generality of thofe who had the fmall-po'x in the natural way were cxpofed,, I could not but fincerely wifli y with every fenfibte perlbn of the facuky, that Inoculation might become general* A conixderable {hat e of employ- ment in this branch of my profef- fion has for upwards of twenty years occurred to me j and altho* I have been fb fortunate as not to lofe a patient under inoculation, except B 1 one