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Franklin, at hi* Printing-Houfe in Queen-Street, over againft Mr. ' c7;*-t/'s Sshooli i 7 * a» ^1 1 i The INTRODUCTION. v NOTWITHSTANDING the moft viti Perfonai Jbufes, and unprecedented Calum- nies lately fpewed out, it was refolved, to drop the Affair, that Contention might ceafe, and leave the habitual Scriblers Mafters of the Field of Scandal, they having already ( after little or nd Oppofition ) given up their Titles to correct Stile, Jufl- nefs of Thougkt, and Force of Argument. But finding them ftill oppofing the Endeavours ufed to caution the Town and Country againft their rafli and thoughtlefs Procedure in a medical Experiment of Confequence, they continuing on their^ bare Word &nly, to affirm it well vouched, prudently managed, of uninterrupted Succefs. and that the Minifters Pretenfions to Phyfick is as good as that of the ahleft Pra&itioners in the Land: To pre- vent the Publick here and elfewhere being thus impo- fed upon, and to maintain the Practitioners in theit Rights and Priviledges, againft the Invafion of fome vairk felf-conceited Men, is the Defign of the following Pages* The weak Artifice they ufe to drown all Argument from the other Side, is the Clamour of Enemies to the Miniftry qf this Country, tho' thefe Men they princi- pally aim at are well known to be their constant Heat* ers, and generous Contributors towards their Support* If a Stranger to the Affair were to read their Writings, he could not think otherways than that all the Minifters of Bojlon are Inoculators, all at Variance with the Practitioners in Phyfick 5 in fhort, that they allareguiU ty of thofe Things alledg'd againft a few. To vindicate the Miniftry of Bojlon from thefe Infinuations '•> all the Town knows, thatfeveral of them have declared againft: Inoculation till further Light in the Praftice, and many of them do not in the leaft meddle \ we have here among our Minifters Viros .Eruditione, Probitate eft Rerum ufta Speftabilesi that is, not only inoffenfive in their Life and Converfation, but alfo of fhining a£tive Virtues. There are in Bojlon Sixteen Settled Minifters; and of them, Six only are tranfiently faid to have bySubfcrip- tion infured the Inoculated, whereof fome, finding Con- tentions Tht I N T R O D 17 C T I O #. tentions to fpread among their Flocks, out of a Christi- an Spirit of Meeknefs, forbear giving further QccafiQfljS for Animofities^ only Two or Three of the whqje Num- ber have exceeded their Bounds,and wrote praclically on a medical Subject, for which they were by the Prattitia- ,\ vers called in Queftion, not pretending to meddle with* their Life and Converfatlon or Miniftry; prefuming at leaft that a Parfon out of his Office may be fallible. Moft of their vile Calumnys 1 impute rather to an Unguarded Paffion, than to their Ignorance of the World and good Manners, or a Propenfity and Inclination to be malicious. The old venerable Dr I. M. defervedly efteemed by all in this Country, his Name and Chara&er ;: with me fhall be facred, no Provocation can oblige me to fhow him any difrefped; but the Son, a Degener a , Pat re, the Hero in this Farce of Calumny, is ufed with a Philofophical Freedom. The Uoiverfity of G-lafgow in Great Britain, from the Refpeft they bear to New-Btfr ^ gland, ufed him kindly, tho' to them nee de facie quidem Kotus, and gratify*d his Vanity with a D.D.; he in re- quital calls a Native of Great Britain ( befides many vile Names ) a meer Stranger, abufes their Country, ridicules their Family Names, makes their Church Difcipline ludicrous, as if they were guilty of ftooping to take Cognizance of little trivial Matters. Perhaps he may oblige this his Alma Mater to difown him for a Son, as 5t feems the Royal Society have already done, by omit- ting his Name in their yearly Lifts. In the following Letter, 1. Some harfb founding Words in the Letter concerning Inoculation to J. S. &e. which have been mifreprefentcd and given Ibnae Offence, are explained. 2. The late Calumnys of fome Inocula- stors, particularly in a little Book called, a Vindication cf the Minifters, are modeftly confiderfed. 3. The Idea of 1 a good Voucher in Natural Hiftory not confiftent with ^* the Conftitution of our principal Inftmment of Inocula- Hj1, tion, on whofe Word all did at firft depend. 4. The Mi* vtifters Pretentions and Qualifications for the Practice of J?hyfickjs enquired into. $. Some Additional loofe Re- marks on the Praftice of Inoculation of the Small Pox in this Country. TH A Letter, Sec. S I R, O^R former Intimacy in our Travels and Study abroad is ail the Apology I ihall make for addrefling you with this Let- ter, which contains an Affair local, tem- porary, and relating only to private Per- fons. The Defign of the laft to you pub- Jilhed in this place, was, that Inoculation might be fuf- pended from being carried into the Country Towns, be- fore any Method or Contrivance was endeavour'd, to make it more eafy to the Patient and fafe to the Seigh- lourhood, from the Hopes we had that the Severity of the Seafon in a natural and ordinary Way might check its further Progrefs, or the after Seafon might be more con- venient for the Pra&ice, or till their cautious Procedure in England might be fome Guide to us here. It con- tain'd, you may remember, a few harfh founding Words, not pronounced ablblutely, but as pathetically flowing From the Solutions advanced to fome unnatural Argu- ments ufed on the other Side. As Guilt is apt to fly into a Man's Face, fo it was here; it put them in a rajjinn, which is commonly faid to be inconfiftent with Reafon, makes them drop all Argument ( we will not en- ter into the Controversy fays the Vindicator Page 11.) an4 fall on whhCalumny,Srurrility, flat Scolding dindBillingJ- sate, ( a certain Evidence of theGoodnefsof theirCaufe, or at leaft of their Ability to maintain it ) and facrifice the Charafters of fevcral good Meu, who endeavouring CO the good of their Country did publickly advife two or three Minifters againft beirig too impetuous, without Method or Contrivance, to pufh Headlong z'novel and dubious Prattice of Confequence in Phyfick ; this, with a Clamour, they call rendring the Miniftry vain and ri- diculous. I. To obviate the Mifreprefentation of fome harjh Jouitd- ivg Words, in the Letter concerning Inoculation to A.S. &c. Becaufe it is reckoned very unfair and unbecoming a Gentleman, to affign Names to Anonymous Books (where the Author has not the Vanity to think that his Name can be any Recommendation to the Book, or does not value himfelf on the Performance ) no Man's Name was Wrote at Length, excepting Mr. Colma%,( his Name be- jng prefixed to his little Book, ) and that only in this PaiTage, Mr, Colman'j Fever in the Flejfj; that he might Jiave the Honour of thiswem Species of fever, which has liitherto been overlooked by the eminent ancient and modern Phyfuian:. The Words^Wjciou* Magi&rates and Minifters are borrow'd from Dr. /. M1 s Reafons for Ino- culation, and not by way of Ridicule : For as Society is maintain'd by the Reverence of the Religion of the Coun- try, aad the Refpeft due to the Authority of their Laws, to derogate from either is the Abhorrence of all good £Ien. The Experiment was called a Humour A Fancy or Tryal) becaufe we are not arrived to that Degree of cer- l«il\Tj!\ere„in» tlm W be re9uifite to denominate it an •ftabhjb d Prattice. In thelntrpduaion, theAdvice to change Subjeffs, that ' the olderMan may write InoculationCafes of Confcience.* and the younger Man theTheory of a Phantom he does not vnderBand, is not meant qf the Drs. M____-r* but of the Authors of fome Obfervations, and Cafes of Confcl- ence. ^Tacitus was very exaft in defcribing the Cha- ndlers pf his Perfonages, fuppofing many Aftions of Co*l fequence to proceed^riore from their Temperament, than from rational Deduftions : bo there the principal InHrn- went ( as the Vindicator calls him) was tranfiently ch ,- raftenzed m Ws Natural Philofophy Capacity/as hereafter more fully illuftrated, without any Refleaio. > on his Life or Miniftry, I5 it not a Sort of Impiety n» CO aflert that a Man dyes in the ufe of the Means, if he dy« in the voluntary Ufe of a Practice which by infe&ing the Neighbourhood.certainly occafions the Death of ma- ny, and is not without Rifque to himfelf ? To compare the Difficulties they meet with in their Promoting of the fpreading of Infection, to thofe our Saviour met within the Propagation of the <«ofpel, is not this an Mufe of the Scripture ? Thefe AfTertions whether Lay or Clergy may be contradicted, for in this Country w« allow of no Infallibility from the youngeft Clerk to the Pope himfelf. To throw the Odium of Party on fome Geritlemen who abhor the vile Name of Faction, is de- fervedly called the night of JJfurance. The Vindicator oflthe Minifters calls a Letter pub- lifhed in Mr. Campbells News Paper, July 14. 171 r, a faucy Libel. I fancy he is befide himfelf; for there is no Minifter there fo much as hinted at, excepting the Re- verend Dr. C. M. who is there ufed with Refpeft and good Manners, viz. * A certain learned Gentleman of ' this Place, who upon the firft Appearance of the Small 'Pox here, out of a pious and charitable Defign ofdo- • ing Good,apply'd to the Practitioners of the PIace,€jV.' Or perhaps,becaufe that Letter advifes the People to be cautious in the Ufe of an Experiment novel- and dubi- ous, it is called a faucy Libel; Is it poflible a rational Man fhould be fo impatient of Contradiction. II. The late Calumnies of fome Inoculators,particularly of a little Book called, A Vindication of the Minifters, are modeHly confidered. A Devott difparages Religion by his unfeafonable and indifcreet Introduction of Scrip- ture, Church, Minifters, &c : By culling, tranfpofing, fmall alterations of words, &c. the moft honeft and feri- ous Piece, may be m?.de appear AtheiSical, Blafphemous, and Treafonable : This is the mean difingenuous Artifice ufed by fome of late. The words which found harfh are obvious to every Man, but Solid Argument and Mat- terof Facl, do not come within the Compafs of every Perfons Capacity and Knowledge : This laft part, tho' the main Point.jhey neglect, and turn the Controverfy on Calumny,of which they are very prodigal.and are not to be anfwcred in Specie, without breach of good Man- ners ( 4 ) 8,ers. Minifters ought to fhow Men their Errors wirh jhe greateft temper and Humanity ; but the reverfe .of (his, to the great Grief of fome of their own People, has too much appeared on this occafion. A Roman Cat bo- lick writer fays, It is no mortal Sin to Calumniate faf eh to prefer ve ones Honour ; another fays, JVe may lawful- ly Slander any Perfon, by charging him with Crimes that ere utterly falfe, if againft his Teftimony we cannot other- tpays defend our felvet. this is a Popijk Practice and not to be encouraged. The late Pamphlet called, A Vindication of the Minh fters, is advifedly faid to be wrote by'fundry Hands j for it is not poflible to Imagine that one Perfon of any Degree of good Memory and found Judgment could fo often contradict" hiuifelf and Matter of Fad ; fometimeij with one hand throwing the mo&fulfome Flatteries on himfelf and Brethren, not animadverting to that noted faying, He that commends himfelf, never piir-chafes our Ap- plauj'e; and with the other Hand the fouleft Dirt, hit or mifs, afted by this Principle, Calumniate audacter, 8cc. To illuftrate this. He fays, "we cannot but admire, the * Moderation and confummate Patience of our Paftors, a- * midft thefe outragious & provoking Abufes and ScanV ' • dais. •— The Meeknefs of our Minifters, urifler thefe ' abufes, imitating their glorious Matter, who remained ' as dumb under the Shearers. —■— We are of Opinion ' thatPerfons may differ in their Sentiments, about this 8 Pra&ice, withour declaring themfelves open Enemies ' to one another, and neglect Chriftian ann civil Con- • verfaion", How well does this taltey with their fol- lowing Scurrilities. " Our Practitioners and late Libel- Mers. Virulent endeavours of wicked men. Impiom • and Satanick Cuftdm. Daringly profane. Impudence c brazen and flagitious. Hellifli Servitude. Impious * Buffoons: Profane Sons of Corah. Children of the old * £tfrjvnf"'and many other Billingfgate Terms of Art. The Vindicator lays', "Dr. Mather difdains to draw 1 his generous Pen for his own Vindication, who changes • not his Temper for all their jnvidkius' Calumnies* • for the Truth of this I refer to a little Pamphlet called' Remarkt, fyc\ in which he meekly fays, " The Author ^ daringly t 5 ) ( daringly prefunHng on a Family Name) of the Letter * to A.S.&c. has not the leaft Spark of Gran in his * Heart. No Fear of GQD before his Eyes. Impudent * and malicious Lyes. The Church ought to deliver him « over to Satan, for he deferves the higheft Cenfure. « Deferves to be Scourg'd out of the Country. The Go- « vernment ought to banifh him. He fhould be pillor'd. 'and afterwardsStonM by the People", with feveral more low Expreffions of an angry brutal Paffion in the Manufcript, which the Printer was afhamed to publifh 5 and all this becaufe the Nature and Thread of the Au- thors Difeourfe obliged him, to reprefent Dr. C. M. as rafh in his proceedings of Inoculation, and fallible in his Natural PWlpfophy- What could he have faid more againft one that fhould write vile things of our Charter and Government? of our Religion and Platform, moft noto- riouily vicious and wicked, a traitor and Blafpltemet ? Are th§re no Degrees in this Man's Cenfure/ Are theft his Philofophical Arguments and mild Chriftian Re- bukes ? A Man's Life and Cortverfationfzft within the ken of his Neighbour's Eye, thefe he might (and would) have faulted, if he had had any handle ; but a Man's Grace, the Fear of God in his heart, are only open to the Omnifcient. In another Place the Vindicator of the Minifters fays^ Strangers or AbjeBs, which inhances their Folly,and makes thir Impudence the more brazen and flagitious. Travelling removes National and Country Prejudices, add enlarges the narrow felfifhSoul; but to ufe by way of Odium the word STRANGER, and couple it with ABJECT, fhows this our Travellers vile, low, abjeS Spirit, and that his Travel is loft. Was he fo ufed when in England ? O Shame .' Was his Father 01 Grandfather fo Hfed when they came to fettle their abode in this Country ? Can ■ any good Man thus throw dirt on his Fathers Memo- ry ? None but a Terrtfilius. , Our Goverhours and other King's Officers from home, are they to be branded with the Appellation STRANGER ? Q impudence, brazen tnd flagitious! IIL The Idea of a good voucher rn Natural Hiftory, not ionftfttnt with tin Con&rtutiw sfgur principal Iuftnimene 0? CO of Inoculation, on* whofe word all ii& at fir ft depend. \ For this I might refer to a Folio called Magnolia, to be found with John Williams and his Brother Tobaceonifts, here and elfewhere. A good Voucher ought to be Sin- ] cere, candid, of folid Judgment, and not Credulous. Let us then fuppofe, forArgument'sSake, \.A Man of a Vale- 1 tudinary Friendjbip, fometimes the greateft Profeffion of ' kindnefs, and therefore to be fufpefted ; at other Times on the leaft difguft, the higheft Malice and rancour, and therefore to be avoided. 2. A Man void of candour, who promotes a Medical Experiment, without the knowledge of, or taking any notice of him from whom he had the Communication 5 who ufes with his Pen in the moft indifcreet unmannerly way, a Friend of mine, whofe M.D. is as good and more regularly acqui- red than his own D.D., one not inferior to himfelf in Birth, Fortune, Education, and the good Opinion of his Neighbours; who calls a Man that has refided fe- veral Years in this Country, and conftantly paid Taxes and other Rates, a newComer,a meerStranger. 3. A Man of Whim, Credulity, and Vanity, who in his Letter to Dr. Woodward, Nov. 18.1711, ( vide Phil. Tranfad. Vol, { ao.) has a particular Fancy, that the wild Pidgebns, < when they leave New-England at certain Seafons, repair to fome undifcover'd Satellite, accompanying the Earth at a near Diftance. Tho' unacquainted with the firft Principles of the Mathematicks, fends Home a Solution of Two the moft abftrufe Proplems or Defiderata in Mathematicks, viz. the SQUARING OF THE CIR- CLE, which is only to be exprefled by Approximati- on, or an infinite Equation, whofe Nature is known, but whofe Value cannot be reduc'd to any determined Lines or Numbers ; the other is the LONGITUDE at Sea, the Difcovery of which for many Years has been endeavoured by the beft Mathematicians, encouraged by large Premiums; and is generally thought will continue a Secret, till fome Comet or other Cajleftial Body ap- pear within our Syftem, and perform his Revolutions in a N. and S. Line,or fome great Circle not much declining from a Meridian,** atprefent we find the Latitude}by the Suns Revolution in a Circle not much declinwv. ; (1) t\\tJEquino3ial,orsZ.8cW. Linear till an Automaton (Clock- work) can be contrived, which fhall for fome confiderable Time move usually or equably, without being affefted by the Weather or external Motion ; or till we find fome Contrivance, notwithstanding the Motion of the Ship, to take the Altitudes of the fixed Stars, and the Edipfes of Jupiter* s Moons. A Man guilty of fuch Jbfurditier, is no good Voucher for an Experiment of Confequence. IV. The Ministers Pretcnfions and Qualifications for the Prattice of Phyfick enquired into. Some of ours here, like the Roman Catholick Clejfgy of old, would have the People believe, that they are the only proper Judges in all Cafes of Literature. The Author of Some Observa- tions, &c. fays * And we at laft find too by fad Expe-, ' rience, that they underftood as well the managing the ' Diftemper ( Small Pox ) then ( 45 Years ago) as we do ' now. ' I could not poffibly conceive the Natural Caufeofthis Thought or Affertion, till a little Piece called a Vindication, &c. was lately publiihed, wherein he explains himfelf thus, (p. roj ' Mr. Thomas Thatcher, a Minifter, Forty Three Years ago, wrote a Sheet of Di- tedions ( which was certainly ul'eful in the then Infan- cy of our Colony ) and perhaps fince that Time no Mi- nifter has wrote on that Subjeft, till this Book of Ob- fervations did appear, which is to make Amends for Forty three Years loft Time in improving, and qualifies the Author to be fuch a one, as he fays, the beft Phy- ficians in the Land need not be aftiamed to advife withal. In fome Circumftances a Layman ( it's faid ) may per- form feveral of the Offices of a Clergyman, where learn- ed and fuitably qualify'd Clerks are not to be found .• and fo fome farcaftick Writers tell us, that in the Infan- cy of this and fome other Colonies, their Teachers, be- fides civil Polity and Phyfick, alfo exercifed fome meaner and mechanick Callings. But now our Colony is of Age, and for feveral Years paft our Minifters have not been allowed to aft in civil Affairs, as Judges, Juftices, Re- prefeqtatives, &c. there being choice of Men lufhcient- ly qualify'd to 6n thefc Place3: For the Um Reafon» ' ' the ( the Minifters (I mean thofe who have the Overfight of a Flock ) in this great Town, fhould ceafe pretending to' Phyfick, there being Practitioners fufficient in Number;] and Qualifications to fupply the Place. Further, we find in great Towns, where there is Variety and Multi* tude ofBufinefs, that the Practitioners may be the be& ter qualified for their particular Profeffions ; Phyfick it felf is divided into diftinft Branches, as Pbyficians, Sur- geons, Apothecarys, Chymifts, &c. each keeping within his Bounds. How then can we fuppofe, a Man of a Vocation, which requires all his Time confcientiouily to difchargc the fame, fhould pretend to a Bufinefs of fo treat Extent ? Hypocrates, the Prince of Phyficians, is, is EpiHola ad Democritum, mbdeftly fays, Ego enim ad $nem Medicina. non perveni Etamfi jam Jenex fim, Et ego fane mihi videor, majorem reprebenfionem quam bonorem art is me ajfequtum effe. To be more or lei's Book learned, is not a fufficient ?ualification for a Phyfician -, there muft be Injlitutio t uero 5 the candid Sydenham fays, Hsc ars baud retliui ferdifcenda eft, quern ah ipfius artis excercitio et ufu. A very eminent modern Phyfician fays, That many Geni ^ tlemen of universal Reading, and old Women by long Nurfing, know as much of Phyfick as to kill themfelves and Neighbours when fick, by the prepofterous indis- creet Ufe of fome noted Medicines. The Reformed Churches of France, in their 19th Ca* A KonofDifciplinefay, Mo Minifter, together with the holy Mirtiftry, fhall btPraHitioner in Law or Phyfick, un- lefs in Time of Trouble and Perfecution, and when he cannot exercife his Calling in his Church, and cannot be maintained by it: And thofe who fhall thus employ them- felves in Law or Phyfick, or any worldly diftr ailing Bu- finefs, fhall be exhorted wholly to forbear it, and totals ly to devote themfelves to the Duties of their Calling as Minifters, and to ftudy the Scriptures, All Collcques andSynodsareadmonifhed to proceed according to the Canon of our Difcipline, againft the refraHory, and fuch as be wilfully difobedient^ y. sow CO ; V. Some additional Up ft Remits on tkPiafHceof Inoculation in this Place. Our Vindicator ftands his ground to the laft drop of Affuranee : What the ingeni- ous Mr. Butler fays of his Knight, may well be apply'd here, 'J/'x ftrange how fome Mens Tempers fuit ( Like Bawd and tiandy ) with Difpute j Who for their own Opinions ftaudfasl, Only to haw them clawd and canvaft* their Methods and procedure are acknowledged rajk by many of their own Inoculation Friends ; this Man continues to affirm it a regular Procedure by letting the Matter in » falfe Light. Is it not Fad, that Dr. C. M. after difperfing his eircularLetters, before thePraditioners, could have time to meet, confult, and make a Return ; privately fets B—-—n to work, without acquainting the To wnfmen and Praditioners ? About this Time the In, fedion had got into feveral Houfes, fo that Watchea could not conveniently he obtained fox them all; but the Juftices and Seled-Men did not negled the Preserva- tion of the Town ( as this Man would iniinuate) and al- low InfeMion to fpread at any Rate. t/. g. The Dead for fome confiderable time thereafter were not allow'd to be carry'd out tiW late in the Night, when People were retired. Upon the Noife of Inoculation being attempt- ed, the &u ft ices and SeleH-Men appointed a Meeting of all the Praditioners, who unanimoufiy gave their Opinion againft it till further Light, which was accordingly pub* lifhed by the Seled-Men* and the Pradice is forbidden^ but by the Inftigation of this Man and his Accompli- ces, they proceed in Contempt of the Magiftrates, and in Contradiction to the Praditioners. Is this a regular Procedure ? If a Dr. C. M. in any other Country fhould meet with the Vindication, Sec. finding him in exprefs Words- af> ferting the uninterupted and remarkable Suceefs of tbit Method; —- the conftant Suceefs of this Experiment, *c. he would diredly publifh, that not one ever dy'd of Ino- culation thefe Forty One Tears, always producing thtmoH hvwtklf ftf/i"-— « Ft«#i<9 wtH lousbiij ftc what * " ~~ fatal no fatal Errors may not Impartiality kad a credulous Man into ? Such an Account as this may do with fome of their Correfpdridents abroad, till contradided by better Hands; but here it is ridiculous and filly, we all know that feveral have dy'd of the Pradice, and that many have fuffered much* , How trifling is it for us, who have had the Experi-, ence of Two or Three Hundred Inoculated, to appeal to a Man who only conjedures it may be of Ufe, and has not had the Opportunities of adducing more than Two tnftances, and thefe of Children, whofe Age might con- tribute to their having them favourable either Way ; I mean Dr. Harris's DifTertatiou on the Inoculation of the Small Pox; the Juftnefs of the Abftrad from it, I pafs over, not having feen the Original. From it we learn no more concerning Inoculation, than, v. g. may be learnt from Dr. Lower's ( the more eminent Man ) Account of Transfufion, addreffed to the Honourable Mr. Boyle, publifhed by the Royal Society, and with mori Earneftnefs recommended, and confequently equally of better vouched, after this Man's weak way of reafoning. Notwithftanding of this Differtation, Timonius, Pylari- nut, and many more Accounts of the Affair that have not come to our Hands; we find them fo cautious at home, that it was fome Time thereafter before any Try- els were made, and thefe by Permiffion of the Govern ment on the Bodies of Perfons dead in Law* He advi- fes Exadnefs in Regimen, which is abfolutely requifite, to know the Advantage of any new Experiment ; we to our Shame boaft and glory in our not ufing any. The Confequences he does not fo much as hint at, which are Difficulties to be difcuffed. However, Bu Harris abftraded has this good Effed, it proves a te» poiary Cordial to fome of the Inoculated. Since mylaft to you, the Small Pox has made little ot no progrefs in the Country; Our News tapers tell usj that in fome Towns it is entirely ceafed, in others much abated. JWho then but Madmen, would have advifed Inoculation in the fevereft Seafon to thofe who are like forever to efcape the Small Pox ? In this Town fe- veral Hundreds have efcaped, and it is probable many (IIJ Tnorc might have efcaped ( as was the Cafe Nineteen Vers ago ) if Inoculation had not rendred the Infedion fo univerfal and intenfe. Laft Small Pox the Month of the greateft Mortality ( December, a fevere Winter Month) did not exceed 80 Perfons 5 at this Time the Month of the greateft Mortality ( OBober, a favourable Autumn Month ) exceeded Four Hundred burials, which is more than all that dyed of the Small Pox Nineteen Years ago. For the three Months of September, O8obert and November laft, in which Inoculation prevailed, the Town was a meerHofpital, and we bury'd Seven Hun- dred and Sixty Perfons. The laft' Small Pox fpread graduallyinthe extent of tenor a dozen Months,and vafl Numbers efcape ; Inoculation of the Small Pox this Time fet us all in a Flame, and in half the Time leaves few People exempt from its rage. With what Face can any Man call Our Methods of Inoculation a regular pro- cedure ? I heartily wifh Suceefs to this and all other Means defign'd to alleviate the Epidemick Diftempers incident to Mankind ; whether cafually difcovered, or ingeni- oufly contrived by the Sons of Afculapius: But rafh- nefs and headftrong irregular procedure I fhall for ever exclaim againft, efpecially that deteftable Wickednefs of fpreading Infection* That I may not incur the Cenfureor* Scribling, I pro- mife to negled and defpife, all that may come from the other Side by way of bare Affirmation, Bombaft, Calumny, Doggrxl Dialogues, &c. but if Solid Reafoning, well vou- ched Matter of Faff, and fuch like appear againft any thing afferted, or conjedured by the Practitioners in op- pofition to thtrajb procedure of the Inoculatorr-, I doubt not but they will take it Kindly and Friendly. / am, SIR, Bo Hon, New-England, Feb. iVb, 1711,*?.- Tours, &c*. *-* POSTSCRIPT^ To Abufes, &c. 'obviated. BEING a Short and Modeft AnfS^u to Matters of Fa& maHciouifj^ mifreprefented in a late Doggrel DIALOGUE. BURLFSQVE is a kind of continued ho* vy repreienting the Joweft abjed Per- Ions as Hroes, and on the contrary de- preffing Charaders of Diftindion. How kindly then fhould the Reverend Minifters and Mr. Boylfton nam'd at length in a late Dialogue, take it of thefe inconfiderate Authors, wha in,this.their doggrel Performance make them the Heroes' af the Farce ? They mull impute it to their Ignorance of the Nature of a bwlefque Satyr. Publick Ridiculing the Dialect of the Northern Partt, of-.Great Britain, by comparing it to a filly Jargon of their own contriving, is no Refiedion on the Perfon they feem to write againft; he writes and fpeaks as the' Town generally do : But it is an Afperfion on part of our Mother Country. Publick Re fled ions on ^Country arc not to be anfwered by publick or private counter Re- flections on the Authors Country • it would be bafe, un- mannerly and unbecoming a Gentleman : The Love and refped I bear to this Country render* me incapable of fo vile a thought. The. Characters of Countries are Edge-Tools not to be play'd withal, they who in a publick notorious manner are guilty of fuch Things^ sfc generally for ever and at any Rate the Objeds of the hjgheft Refentments of every native of the Country fo abufed and vilifyM. A Calumny fa) Calumny and Scurrility foreign to Matters of Fad, ate undervalued ; they only reflect on their Authors, and generally take off the Edge and Force of their Perfor- mance. Tour Phyfick is not good. Who would take of yonr Phyfick ? I am fure I would not, and fuch like childifh weak low PafTages, require no Anlwer, What was formerly obviated in fome late Papers is generally pafTed over. In fhort, the whole fhould have been oeg- leded, if Matter of Fad were not in an egregious Man- ner belyed, they well knowing that Men dont care tf turn back to the late temporary Books to findtheTruti of Cafes now forgot. Without giving the Charaders of the reputed! Authors,, or making Animadverfions of any kind, I fhall confine my felf to Matter of Fad, and in as few words as poffible. I fhall not depreciate the general word Acadtmicus, not by ufing of it refled on Harvard College, I wiflTIt may iiourifh and profper; but inftead thereof, to the particu- lar things advanced in the Dialogue I fhall prefix thefe imaginary Letters, D. C. M. and then fubjoin nothing but Matter of Fad in anfwer to them. D. C M. ' It was it's being by your felves (and many •' others ) reckon'd a Cafe or Matter of Confcience,. that " made us write, elfe perhaps we would never have " troubled you. Does this excufe your writing t>radically on a Meih 4fal Subjed; or alleviate the vileft Scurrilities that ever before appear'd in Print. • # D.C.M. " It's a defign of destroying the Religion of ,c the Country, by employing fome of the Phyfician* ai '* Tools to their accurfed purpofe. A groundlefs Clamour. We know of no fuch Defign J Our Praffitiontrs you have found by experience, are not to be ufed as Tools. D.CM. " Dr. Mather did not fend Circular Letters to 41 all the Praditioners in Town, there were foine( left "noted ) he had no thoughts of. He defired a fecond •' Perfon? might communicate them to the Owner of the " Originals. It is accordingly faid only the noted Praffitioners. l( ho had bten candid, he would-hav? lent dirsdjy to the1 owner ieir[;Owner of thefe Canunieationr, or rather would have dif- tf^courted the matter Perfonally with him, as in former y Times he has done on more trivial OccaTions. fli '« Pi^M* " Dt, ifa/for's Circular Letter fays, I move ip. • it be warily proceeded in. ^— Let the Body be wife- C lL?repar'd'~~ Let there bca Confultation.---- ■::...'' Whoever begins it, let him have the countenance of lttt" his Brethren, £ This Conclufion of his Circular Letter is unluckily asSS*"^ upon the Stage; His Adions have bely'd his aju Words. I appeal to the Town, was there a previous f»Confultation, before it was attempted? and when a Confultation was appointed by the Justice: and Settll. n *¥en> ^ not :^i$ ***n Particularly, *n contradidion to , .'. the unanimous Opinion of the Prakitioners, pufli it on pirixriore violently than before? Had B----n the concur- 'Lence of his Breinrer»? Do they always prepare the . oodles of their Patients f JD.CM. " A Divine who perhaps has read more in J" Phyfick, than any of you. What Volumes of Phyfick and the Mathematicks he may have fwallow'd down, without chewing, I cannot fay; but I know fo much of his Conftitution, he is na- „ tUfally troubled with indigeftion. D.C.M. " You faid formerly, he was a Learned Man ' "of Pious and Charitable Defigns; now you fay he is •* a Man of Whim, Credulity and Vanity ; thefe are in- ,uconfiftent. 1 / knock under, I acknowledge my former miftake, as do many more in this Town. D.C.M. " To fay the People were cautious, is the *' fame as to fay the prudent were cautious at firft in V the pradice; becaufe the Qeneral includes all partj- " culars. We all know tliat the People of Bofton in general were at firft againft Inoculation, therefore Dr. lliathet was againft it; would be a fa 1 fe Way of Reafoning, a iiieer School-boy Quibble. Before JT/Nien/iu wrote, feveral in CoiiHantinople, had beenInoculated,therefore the Wort JV0j»/r7»jK>|liCafes ateqf the fame kind o/ Uniuerfality. D.C.M. ** I own" it is faid the Turks do not much a ■» J'coihg (4) |* come into it, inftead of the Turks do not yet come " into it. I cannot tell how it happened fo in the Pfefs, " it is only the Word much for yet. This Error ( if of the Prefs ) is of fuch Confequence, as to have required a publick Coiredion in fome Week- ly Paper. D.C.M. «• Funefti is Tranflated /'// Confequence inftead " of Mortal, becanfe he does not pretend to a precift " Tranilation, but only an Abftrad. The word mortal the true precife Tranflation,«? fhoN- ter than the defignediy falfe Tranflation ill Confequence* and therefore would, even according to this way of rea- foning, better fuited an Abftrad. • D.C.M. " He does not omit TimOnius faying it was' -" pradiced when half the Infeded dyed. It is true ; but he' omits Pylarinus's ( the lateft Au- thor ) Words to the fame purpofe. D.C.M. " His omitting fome paffages in Timoniuj V which feem to infinuate that Inoculation is not al- u ways favourable, is becaufe he was writing an abftrad tf not a long Original. His abftrading a fhort Abftrad ( we lately fee it here Reprinted, is it a long Original ? ) and omitting paffa- ges of Confequence, will not bear this Excufe, thus any Man may make de quolibet, quidlibet. D.C.M. " Timonius docs not lay that Inoculatibn waj if the Means of the Deaths of thefe two valetudinary "Children. The Words of Dr. Woodward's Abftrad of Timonius are, Nor do I think it proper to be attempted on Perfoni iike to dye. ( Let our Inociilators reconcile this with the Solutions they defign to give us of the inoculate! Deaths in this Place, and their own regular Procedure.) Some more quick Sighted imagined thefe two Children were as ufeiefs Shades, fent to Charon by any Means that couU be made ufe of, Does not this intimate, that Inoculi- lion was this very Means. D. C. M. *l The'Realon why the Qwner would not * reprint thefe Pieces onr Inoculation, was( finceno other •tl Copy could come into the Country,)that he might paft .** undetected; * TO* ■ This fuppofes we have no Communication with lop- no*;, or that the Owner was about to leave the Country before he did fee himfelf deteded; on the contrary, Mr. Campbell tells.us he had a Copy Five Months ago, and the owner is a feitled Inhabitant in the Place. D. C. M. " If your reprinting of it were wicked, Dr. * Hxlley and the Royal Society are guilty of Wickednefs. If the Author ever perufed thePbilnfopbical Tranfafti- ons, he m^ find there many things never defigned by tfiem for Pradice, ( v. g. Dr. Lower's Transfufion of the Blood ) conftantly publifiied by Way of Amufement. We find in Fad in this very Cafe, that Timonius has been by them publiftied Seven Years, and no Thoughts ojf" bringing it into Pradice, until fome Months ago that Dr. Maitland proppfed it might be try'd on condemned Criminals. But to encourage a headlong Procedure, in a Pradice novel and dubious to us at this Jundure, efp*- cially when the Owner of the Communication was not in himfelf convinced of its evident ►Utility and Safety : I ihvnfcit Wickednefs. D. C. M. " You lye in faying the Winter Seafon is " the only Seafon recommended by the Conftantinople ** Inoculators. Pylarinus ( the lateft Author ) his own Words are, Tempus fecundum Operaticem bibefnum defideratur, et von jnifi tali tempore ipfa infitionem inftituebat. The Ope- ratrix required, and perform'd it only in the Winter Sea- fon. It's true, he conjedures the Spring may do, not ha- ving it feems ufed that Seafon. D. C. M. " If you fay fome Africans who told they " had been Inoculated, have now had the Small Pox in *.' the common Way, you may fay any thing. I appeal to the Town, if fome Negroes, who in Con- fidence of having had the Small Pox formerly by Inocu- lation, did attend the Sick, were not taken ill of. the Small Pox and dy'd ; the laft Inftance I think was not long ago at Marblehead. D. C. M. **■ A filly Story or Converfation between two «* Blacks and two of the Promoters. Where are thefe il Books .' You certainly fee double. O Iron! Vide Sme Actwnt, &c. p. 9. Mr. ColmiJi P» 15. fays, TDe (6) The pleaftng avid informing Difoourfe I had with a P009 Pfegfo, „. D. C. M. " The firft Communication of it to the '* Learned in England, was from Dr. Tinomus about Six "or Seven Years ago, a>'id not Twenty Years known in " England* Thou waft lying for a Wager. "% can adduce Perfons in this Town who when in En- gland more than Seven Years ago, heard of it there. I appeal home to Multitudes, particularly**© Bellinis'fM ( who has been dead many Years ) Letter to Pitcaim^m concerning this Pradice when it firft fpread in Italy. D. C. M. " It is Matter of Fad, that laft Summer it c* was approved of in England, and pradifed with Sue* " cefs there, beeaufe we had it fo in one of the London " Piints. Me ufes the Argument of the filly Country Fellow, It niuft be true, becaufe I fee it in Print. Was it in the Qa-i scene ? We all know, that any flying Report, if furpri- zing, is immediately, priute4 in London, by fome oftho common News-Writers. How does the Wot&sinoculated Incognito ( the laft News We had of this Pradice ) fuit, , with an approyea] Pradice j but this our bufy Inocula*ifi tor was fufrtciently aware of; he candidly and advifed-* ly left out incognito when he fent this News to the Prefs. | It's true all Europe may be inoculated by this Time for any thing we know, but this Story related only to fome. Months ago. ■, . . D. C. M '• Spell Philofopby, and conftrue Hades. I fuppofe'he Defigns to .he witty upon Couranto. Cou* wanto can anfwer for himfelf- P. C. Mi •* Dr. C Mather feorns to lofe Time to med- (( die with you: He feorns to anfwer what is wrote " againft him. This AfTeaion is not confiftent with his innate Itch of Writing. Moft it\ Town are convinced, partly from his own Cojifeffion, and other good Evidences, that he has had a Hand in the late Caiumnys. D. CM. " You don't like the whining Preaching of Mr.C----»andC----r. We all know they, don't whine: If he did not like them, he is under no, obligation |0 be their conftant hearer. hearer. Their names fuffet by being breath'd upon by this infeding malignant Mouth; they abiiot fuch vile Ungfcntlemanly ufage. D. C. M. " Fus et Nefos, fhould have beeu corteded " in rhe Prefs, fas et Nefas. The Publick are obliged to you for this Sublime Piece of Criticifm. D.C.M. " Every Body but the Author ( who here be- " trays his Ignorance in the Chronology of Phyfick ) " knows tfiat Dr. Sydenham's writings were publifhed " more than Forty Three Years ago. This Man is void of Shame. Dr, Sydenbarii's Letter to Dr. Bfady de morbis Eptdemicis ab A. 167$ to 1680 is dated 30th Dec. 1679. His Letter to Dr. Cole, de Vario- lis confluentrbus et affeftioncHyfterica bearsdate r7th/for. 1681. His Piece de Febre putrida Variolic conftuentibus Superveniente was finifhed 29th Sept. 1686. D.C.M. " The Evidences of the 111 Confequences, &c, " of Inoculation are only tha*, They heard a Man fay, " that fomebody told him, that he heard a Report. Vide News Letter, 14th Julyt72r.M. DaCHondc's Depofition is from his own Perfonal Knowledge. D.C.M. " In England it is a very common thing to *' carry Children into theinfeded Chambers, on purpofe " to give them the Small Pox. Some few do, but it is not a Pradice juftify'd there ; grown Perfons are never thus expofed, neither Women .with Child. D.C.M. " Thou art a Murderer (if felonious) becaufe "you have privately declar'd fo often in Favour of it j " andpofitively faid you could pafs no pofitive Judg-' •' ment on the Practice. He never faid fo much privately in favour of it, as he can- didly publifhed p. zo. >»«. "That Inoculatiqn is frequently more favourable, and not altogether fo mortal j not one of the Inocu- lated, fo far as we know, in the Space of Five or Six Months has bad the Small P»* in the natural Way". When a Man in not pofitive of a Pradice,' it is natural tnd confluent for him. re He cautious in the rain and indifcrett Ule of it. D. C. M. " You ridicule tlie Magiftratcs and Minifters Inocu- '* lators. This is obviated in Abufks Sec. obyiatti, p. 4. 'DC. M. " Infedion was nem cojiauiiucatcd by their run- 14 ning Incifions. I appeal to s!i« Town, y.C.M. D. C, M. " Thou art thankful to God for the late Deaths of " the Inoculated. It is only faiff^ That the late Deaths offevtral lnocul. CM. when he writes or caufes to write, forbear Scur- rilitres 5, they are a Scandal to his Profeflion, and hurt his Argument. Let him keep ^ 'igwvwwvww^ W"V^W^/WW' ^y^V»'W '-yvgyivw f^%t^b«w^ ?V,«r w . u^0* riA vwWW ^VW^V^^^^^^^u^vwy^ 'W-U,. ;^^;W^ Am^Ha/M/v WvvW* ^#^ ^(_ s»W7 *.yO>yVwvWw^ ^wwwwv^WWw SAW* ^to. wy^ -, ^w. vWyv