IT. „..,.• .- ^ . INOCULATION OF THE ^Tl^C'M%i ,** Small P OX As pra&ifed in Boftonj Confider d in a Letter to A-S—M& & F.R S. So learned Tatiacotius/r*?^ The brawny Part ojf Porters Bunt, Cut fupple mental JV^r-*-— . Hudibras; ■(— ...—.—__-----------... — ■■». B 0 STO jV; Printed; and told by J. franklin, at his Print- Jing^oufe in QuCen-Street, over againlt ?I^r. Sfotffs School. 1722. <—■———— ' ...... I ■ ■ ■ I I —«*———»—fc III I ' ' " ■ THE INTRODUCTION- A Copy of the following Letter cafually coming to hand, I could uot forbear publilhing it ac this jundure, when Six Men ( commonly cill'd the Six INOCULJTI6N MINI- STERS ) without any weight of Argu- ment, by itieer importunity, and reiterated Praying, Prea- lihiilg,andScribling(^«f/rt cavit tepid-em non vifcdf&pc tadendo ) do Indeavbur that the infatuation of Self-pro- curing the Small Pox, may "become univ'erfal. The Epifiolary Winner, may excufe its 7iot le'mg nicely ctttred d»cl well digefted, the freedom ufed in canvaffing the. itiatter,ahd the warmth with' which the Author in fe- yeral incidents exprefleth hnpfelf; which perhaps, thp. ilgpur of a forma] Diicourfe &c. would not allow. i The Country and Ministers are not refleded on, but ra- ther vindicated, by laying the reproach on the particular Perfons who alone have rendred themfelves obnoxious. It Is every Gdod Mans principle and iritereft to wilh welA and do well for the Country he lives in ; and as » Chrifi- tin to tefped the Good and Pious Minifters of J ES US CH&lSt, who as Husbands of one Wife abftraHing tBetofetVesfrbm all worldly Contentions, are devoted foie* ly to the Service of GO U Jll Counifyij or Bodys Politick, (our-own Mother I - Country not excepted ) have been fubjed to Infatuations: I Thefeinthis Country fcein always to have proceeded I from fome of thofe who call themfelves Sons of Lev:, The Perfetuthn »f*lt*-§ititktrs about the-YearrtSTfrrttre ! ; banging of thofe [ufpeftcd of Witchcraft, about the Yeai 1x691, &c. and Inoculation, or Self-pmcuriftg the Small '$x, in the Year 17115 and to fpeak like an Aftrono- Ai mer f The Introduflion." met, or rather in the manner of Dr. C. M. Infatuation feems to return to us after a Period of about Thirty Years, viz. froij|>the Maffachufetts-Bay being colonized ,Mnoi6z8, to the Perfecution of ,the Quakers, Thirty Years; and fo from Infatuation to Infatuation. By the Indulgence of our Charter, the Ministersof all -forts are left fui juris, which may be the natural Caufc why fome of them, abufing this Priviledge, do meddle in Matters not in the leaft appertaining to them. .Tho they are not under fuch a wholfome Dilcipline as is thatr of the Church of Holland, there is one good Exptdieat K left to keep them within the Sphere of their own proper Bufinefs, viz. Only one Inoculation MiniHer to a Congre- gation. Thus tte Congregation will be capable of fet- tling on $lim a better Maintenance, the overplus Church Stock may be a furfi* for charitably relieving their Poor, and the Minifter, inftead of fcrib ling fome little Piece of Contention once a, Week, muft more profitably employ that fpare time in compofing afeeond Sermon for the Edi- fication of his Hearers. Ihope(to ufe their own Words) I am not out of my Line, even tho' I mould further give them this natura^Advice to change Tasks, let the older Man puzzle hlmfelf in folving Cafes of Co7ifeience, and the young Man write fome Obfervarions or a Phyfical Account of aVhantomht does not comprehend. This Letter, i/?, gives fome bijlorical'Account of the matter, as tranfaded amongft our felves. idly, The At- gumcnts( if they may be fo call'd ) ufed by the Inocula- tes, to perfwade the People to give headlong into this novel Pradice. idly, The Reafons againft the ufe of it at this Time, and till further Lighr. And lafily, Some Remarks on this Practice, and the manner of promoting .it. *r A Letter, &c. SI R, SOME time ago, I promisM to fend you fome new Ohfervations I have lately made in fome ex- traordinary Cafes of the Small Pox, and its in- cident Symptoms. At this time I entertain you with our moft extraordinary Occurrence relating to that Diftemper, viz. The,Com- munication commonly call'd, Inoculation of the Small Pox, by applying fome laudable variolous Pus, to afrejb cutaneous Ineifton in a Perfon who never pad the Small Fox 5 fevett or eight Days,fooner or later after this Application, arifet a Fever, whofe Crifis is a cutaneous Eruption, fome- thing analagous to the Stnall Pox Pufiules, and fometimes a true genuine Small Pox ; but with an uncertain Period of Eruption, Maturation and Defqutmation. I. The Rife, Progrefs and Succefs of this novel Practice, or artificial Small Pox, in Bofion. APhyficianof this Place, lent to a certain Reverend Gentleman of the Town the Philosophical Tra7ifa8ions, wherein he found the Letters of Hmonius and Pylarmus,, from the Levant to the Hoyal Society in London, giving fome Account of the Method and Succefs or this Pradice in thofe Countries; being a Man of Whim and Credulity, thinks this Jundure a fit Opportunity to i»ake make Experiments on his Neighbours, ( which in Vani- ty he might judge acceptable to the Royal Society,) takes the Hint, lends circular Letters to all the Pradi-1 tionersof the Place, ( the owner of the Tranfadions ex- cepted, ) inviting them to- come into it. At firft they all declined fo ralh and ill vouched a Practice: At length one of them ( mate bold than wife or knowing in his Bufinefs^ findirtefcy his bad Succefs ilUhe cuilof his firft liafurvlti&n fox Patients* that fee H»oul(L make buta-poor hand.of/it, «br|cesjtheiPr^eftfj bulbeing rafli and unlucky Tn his axft Experiments, he was pub- Jickly expost: Then he applys to the. two Minifters of the Congregation to which he belongs ( being himfelf illiterate ) to vindicate his Charader as anabje Pradi- tioner : They as his good and careful Pajlots, with three or four more Parlous whofe Afliftance were defiredr lake liim under their Protedion, and in Print beftow fen him £u-aekijh Charatttts high enough to make the inOlt celebrated Phyficiati in Engla7id blufti. Xhu% thefe Fe^ of the Cletgy were drawn in to fupport thhlnocu- iator, and cbnfeqtierniy Inoculation 'it ielf; arid yoii .Xrtow, many ^Clergy men think they gite up their Cha- rader of Orades, if theyftiould retratt tho'in matters thf rnoft abfurd. Several things werepuhlim'dirt the Weefc ly News"Papers by the Practitioners ( as in Duty boundj to put a flop to this raih and dubious Pradice j ( AT]?, at Vhis time thofe Minifters contrived to4hut the Prefs a-r gdinft them ) aod much has been fince that wrote on the other fide by the hioculat/7ig Par [oris, full of Cdnt and Impropriety s. The Small Pox being fo universal foi fome time pair, the Praditioners could not find Time to p^rufe their Scribles and give them fuitable Anfwers; upon this the Parfons became uppilh, thinking they had gain'd the Field of Battle ; but now^ QQ D be thanked, . the Small Pox is over, and the Praditioners are like to find leifure Time to amufethe Town and themfelves in driving th«m home within their own Lines. In the ftrft Tryals, the Eruption Fever of B----n's Soa and old Mr. W—b, ftanled the Inoculators. $ but as Peifous Ferfons fcorning to give out, and in Contempt of tht Ouardicns pr Seleil-Men of the Town who forbid the, SPradjce, asalfo contrary to the declared Opinion of the Vraftihmeri in Phyjick, they make, a fecond Attempt on % few with indifferent good Succefs: At length many io&cuUtcd/w/tr much; Mrs. D----/ ( and others whom Time may bring to light ) dyes of it; Then they gave put, that fhp lofedioii was fo unxverfal, that it wai likely 3]^ t|& Inpculated had received the Infedion in |he cpmpioo Way, and the difference of Climate from (hat in the Levant was the reafon of the Eruptions be? ing more. They feem to intermit the Pradice for fome time; but left it fljould be taken for recanting, they nah \y once more* and w\ih Precautibn inoculate thofe who could not be fufpefted of having received the Infedioa in jhe natural Way, for fome Days pretty lucky; but fo#n after, feveral of the Inoculated dye, ^nd many fufr fcr much* Now they fay the. Winter Seafon will not do, tho,' this is the only Seafon recommended by their Authors : So that with various Succefs it has bee* gradiCei fince the middle of June, to this Time on aoout Tvvo HundreASubjeds. When the Confufion is over, I - fhail he able to learn fome Hemarkables in their Cales, and tranfrnit them to you. •> II. The Motives and Methods u£ed to induce Peo* pie to tjo|js Pradice. Fits}, Timodius and Pylarinus Communications to tit llqjtaj ■Society, ( falfely laid in a late Paper to beiapprat ijed of by them* ) If all that is publiihed in the Phy* lofophical TranfaSions, viz. Amufemeots, Projeds, cie-» 4ul»us_ Relations, fifr, ought to be. put in Pradice, the World wpjildbe foQn turn'd upfide down. How ridicui lous is it then to find fault witJn the owner of the.Tranf- «#/c* r,becaufehedoes not comply with tljeir WIG KE D QfiSIRES. tq reprint here thofe Accounts of theLe- vant ^Gentlemen? He has'more regard to the Lives and Ijellltfi of rlj* Neighbours, than thus to bring them in-- to a Snare.. .if &%. Cfinfrieuce couk} gute way to fuci* Things, ✓ Things, he might tranfcribe and publilh from the Pbilo- fopbical TranfaHiont and other Authors, many Projeds and Amufements, no lefs fe^able than this, but which might prove dangerous Edge-Tools in the Hands of Fools. I mall inftance but one, which if it were not for its bad Confequences, might be of vaftly more univerfal Benefit to Mankind. . . The Transfufion of the Blood of a found Perfon into the body of a Morbid Subject, firft projeded and pradifed by a very eminent Phyfician Dr. Richard Lower: It is to be found in Phil, Tranfaft. for Dec. 1666, being a Letter to the Hon. Mr. Boyle, dated Oxford 6th July, 1666, where he defcribes the whole procefs of the Operation : It was afterwards put in Pradice in France, and published there March 1667 ; and in Dr. Lower's Works fince pub- lifhed, it is farther recommended, faying, that tho it is the difpofition of fome Men not to be pleafed, and not to allow of any new thing but what proceeds from themfelves, he doubts not but this Invention may be much for the benefit of Mankind, if pradifed by a well advifed and difcreet Perfon; then gives inftances of fome on whom this had been pradifed; afterwards tells what Subjeds may allow of this Pradice, and recom- mends it in the Gout and many other chronical Ails-, and defires the Pbyficians all the World over to put it in Pradice, that by ufe and cuftom the Pradice of it may become univerfal; concludes, that as Harvey difcovered the benefit of Circulation within the proper veffels of an individual, he had found the way of transferring Circula- tion without the Sphere of the Individual, for the bene* fit of a fecond Perfon. All our Inoculatori{ Dr. CM. excepted ) have thefe Levant or far fetch'd Accounts only at third Hand ( fo ftrong is their faith ) viz. from the partial abftrad of C. M. of theabftrad of Dr. Woodward, from Timoniut Original Letter which is not published in xheTranfaSi- Ttmonius and Pylarinus in fome things elajb ; the firft Cays it came from Afia9 the Other from Qrttet, Tivwnins fays \ (J) fays it had been pradjfed for about the fpace of Fort f Years among the Turks and others at Constantinople, Pylarinus ( the lateft Author ) fays,That the Turks only would not come into it, becaufe repugnant to their dodrine of PredeHination. Thus one would think they were writing concerning a thing they bad rather heard than feen much of, efpecially if we take Pylarinus own. words, j^Md»tv/j de omnibus, ut i7igenue fatear oculatus tefits effe non.pojfum, meaning all the crrcumftances of this Operation or Pradice: and take their whole accounts, Phd. Tra71fa8.N0. $39. 347.you willfind they did not know lialf fo much as wt dp at prefent in our Ihort irio- culation Pradice, v.^.The Operatrix fays, The Pus of the Artificial Small Pox is ineffectual for further tranfplan- tation; Pylari7ius, its true, conjedures( not having try'd it) that it may be more benign and more effedual; but we have put it in pradice and fuffered thereby. Pylari- tius forbids Flelh and Wine for forty days, becaufe fome who have erred in that point have run great hazards by frefh eruptions; we confine them to no Regimen only for a few Days about the eruption. Timonius fays, None that tver ufed it, dyed of the Small Pox ;. and in another place » mentions two inoculated Children who dyed, but fays he it was of Cacochymy \ we to our fad experience know, that feveral have dyed. He fays without referve, They who have this Inoculation pradifed upon them are fub- jed to very flight Symptoms, and in another place of 5«o who were Inoculated about the fame time, four had the Symptoms worfe, and came near the confluent kind, as we have alfo leain'd in our experience > feveral of the Inoculated in Bofton, when I infinuared to them the ganger of having, after fome time, the Small Pox in the common way, told me, it could not poflibly happen, becaufe their eruption Fever was more violent than gene- rally in the common way. As toihtfaithfulnefs of Dr. C Mys abftrad, on which foundation all did at firft depend, take thefe few inftaa- ces. Timonius fays, at firft t/je more prudent were cauti- out. C. M- turns it, At. fir H the People were cautious, be- B ing («) ing «mwilling to fay it was prudence to le cautiouu Pylarinus fays, Turcat banc negltxerant hue ufq\ Our fidus interpres renders it, TheTurks do not yet much come into it', Pylarinus in Engliih is, the. Turks bad not at all then come intoit, Pylarinus fays, Nunquamfere ex tranf- flantatione hacfune&i (mortal ) quid accidijfe obferva* turn fwt bactenus; our {training interpreter renders if * that it was hardly evxr known that there was any ill con- sequences of this Tranf plantation ; which is a very unfair and fatal Tranilation, defigning that his Readers fhould not think that Death or Fatality fometimes follow it, ^ tho' other bad confequences may. He partially omits every thing that feems not to favour the Projed ; he does not tell us that Pylarinus advifes it ( immanitet gr off ante Variclarum Epidemia) when the Small Pox was very malignant, and Timonhts in the time when it was fo mortal that half the infeded dyed ; then indeed ( if the Law allow ) an Anceps Reviedmm may be embraced, but not when it is fo favourable that not above one in to dye of it: He with no good detlgn omits that palTage in Iimonius, that of Jo who had this Inoculation pradi- fed upon them almoft the fame day, four had the erup« tions too fudden, Tubercles more, and Symptoms worfl^ ,■ ^nd came near the confluent kind; and a little farther a Boy 3 at. of a bad habit pf Body who was Inoculated, had the Small Pox as is ufual in that way, but about the forcieth day dies of a Marafmus. A Girle 3 At, j>f a bad habit and loofenefs of long Handing, had as u- fual the Small Pox by Inoculation, but dies the thirty fecond Day. To conclude our Abftrador's P ROB ITT in the matter, he fays, that the Author of thefe Abridge ments addreffed them to thofe who had the Originals in their Hands, aid therefore it could not be thought that it was not as faithful a report as could be made' of the matter. The truthis,hefent his Abftrad to all the no- ted Praditioners in Town, but not to the owner of the Philofophical TranfaBions. Proh.fides! Their fecond Voucher is an Army of half a Dozen ot . half a Score Africans, by others call'd Negroe Slaves, who (1) who tell us new ( tho* never before ) that it is pradifed in their own Country. The more blundering and Ne- jgroifh they tell their Story, it is the more credible fays C. M; a paradox in Nature ; for all they fay true or falfe is after the fame manner. There is not a Race of Men on Earth more Falfe Lyars, &c. Their Accounts of what was done in their Country was never depended up- on till now for Arguments fake. Many Negroes to my knowledge have allured their Mafters that they had the Small Pox in their own Country or elfewhere, and have now had it in Boston. Some pf Dr. AVs Inoculated Ar- my have had the fame Fate, which might ferve as an Argument that the Inoculated may have the Small Pox afterwards in the common way ; but fuch weak Argu- ments our caufe does not require. To confirm this you have at length in two of their little Books a filly Story or familiar Interview and Converfation between two Hack ( Negroe ) Gentlemen,aTiA a couple of the Reverend Promoters, concerning Inoculation. 0 Rare Farce ! Their third Allegation in favourofjt is, If it had heen unfucceftful or attended with bad confeque7ices( fince it has been pradifed many Years in Turky ) it muft needs have been cut of countenance arid have cenfed long agpm An indifferent Perfon would more naturally reafon thus; If it had not been attended with bad confequences (fince it has been known to feveral Phyficicians all over Europe for many Years ) and being fo fafe for the time and of fuch an unparrallel'd ufefulnefs, it muft have been prac- tifed all the World over long ago, not fo many Princes and great Statefmen have died of the Small Pox,md all the Christian -world continue folong in znobjlinate breach of the fixth Commandment, The fourth fort of Motives comprehends all the wide and wildComparifons they have made in favour of it; few of them will bear repeating. The comparison of their Neighbour's Houfc being on fire, and the fecuring their own without delay. They fhould have added, the faving their own, nor by an in- fallible method, and with the certain confequences of putting putting the Town in Flames ( infcffion fpreading ) in all corners ; thus the conflagration being univerfal, the few hands which might in a great meafure keep the ac- cidental Fire under, or fave much Subitance, cannot be fo ferviceable in a calamity fo univerfal; befides the greater intenfnefs of the Fire. This was the true ftate of the cafe in September, Ottober% and fome part of No- vemberlkik. If my Neighbour's Houfe be on Fire, I muft endeavour to ftop its Progrefs, and order Affairs fo at home that my damage may be fmall by removal or otherways, but not fet fire to the Shell of my Houfe (Mr'. Coleman'j Fever in the Pkfb) that I may get off my Iffeds by the light of it, tho' endangering the whole Town. In an Inundation a Man will naturally take to the firft Plank, Ffc. that eomes in his way : where the dan- ger of being drowned is certain, an anceps remedhtm any thing may be embraced; but our Cafe is, Suppofinga a neighbouring Country is inundate, and the Tide with the Storm in Courfe arc likely in a few hoursto over- flow the Country where I live, and perhaps one in ten ,; perifh. I with fome others ( PUBLICK SPIRITS) ra- ther than fecure the Banks, or fly up into the inland _ Country, chufe to put to Sea from a Lee Shore ( where there is no looking back after Inoculation it is too hue • to repent ) in a. Boat or uncertain craft with provifions for fome Days or Months, having no certainty how to fteer my Courfe to a Terra-firma ( or prefent ftate of Health:) By this Method, I am lure of furvivinga* few Days or Months, Dangers of the Seas excepted, ( the Hazard of Inoculation whereof feveral perijb, ) tho' lyable to all the Inconveniencys of being at Sea, ( chro- Tiieal Ads perhaps, ) whereof at length I dye, if in due time I do not get afhore. Or as it relates to Infedion, take it as follows. When an Inundation threatens uj, ^ as before,! withtomimthexs, ( END E AVO UR ING \ THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE, ) take the firft favourable Opportunity (v. g. of a Lull) breakdown tome Part of the Dike, float off our Veffels, and put to t Sea Sea for our own Safety : Thus the Waters, inilead of coming on gradually, as they would in Courfe of Na- ture, do with a fudden Impeiuofity lay all under in a ihort Time. Their indiftind, confufed, fuperficial Notions of Things, makes their Phyfical Compxrifons fo wild. They compare the taking of preventing Phyfick to the Pro- curing a Contagious Diftemper. They do not know how to diftinguilh between aDifeafe (imply Epidemick, and a Contagious Epidemical DiHemper; many Methods may be allowed of in the Firft, which are Dangerous and Deftrudive in the other. Preventive P*hyfick I think, is generally given to prevent Relapfes, but not the firft oufet of Difeafes. I never heard of a Salivation given to prevent a Pox, nor of Veficatorys to one who never had the Head-ake to fecure him from it. If any Patient thought that one in Thirty, or Forty, or an Hun- dred, died of a Vomit, or any other preventive Phyfick, it could not be expeded they would undergo it, efpeci- ally if the Confequence muft certainly be fome dubious Diftemper.' The Comparifon of the Cortex Peru, orjefuits Powder, favours this Pradice moft, being a true Specifick in in- termitting Fevers or Agues. We learnt it from the Spa- mfi Indians in the Southern Parts of America. It was found to prevent totally, or for fome confiderable time the return of aguijb Fits. At its firft Entrance into Eu- rope not having by Experience ( and to the Coft of the fit ft Tryers) learnt the doling and timing of it, and what Conftitutions would bear it, inftead of the intermitting Fever which it prevented, it left many chronical and fatal Ails, which did not appear but in Procefs of timet So that People were very fhypf it, and chofe rather the Ague fhould take its natural Courfe, or ufual Method of - Cure, tho' a few did die of it; than be liable to thefe After-claps, of which in Procefs of Time many died. I ask our Confc.e7ice DireHors, whether at that time, they who would not ufe the Cortex (for then the faluiary ufe of it was not known ) were Breakers of the Sixth Com- " " maudment1? t 10) mandment ? Even at this time,thof the Ufe of the Cor' tex has been improved upon by the moft polite Nations fome Scores of Years, fome eminent Phyjicians, and a great many Patients, chufe rather to omit the Ufe of it, be- caufe of its fufpeded Confequences; are they Breakers pf the Sixth Commandment ? The Fifth Motive to induce People to come into this Method of Inoculation, is the late Accounts from^ En- gland, of its being laft Summer pradis'd and approv d of there. The KING ( fays one of the Inoculators ) Princet and moft eminent Phyficians in London and Dublin, have ^ declared their Approbation of it, and it is zfuccefsfnl VraBice there. This is either a Dream, fecond Sight, 01 a contrived Story, for the lateft News from thence only ,- tell us that after much Intcrceffion of fome Surgeons,who were in the Humour of making Experiments, and the KING's advifing with the learned at Law? the KING did condefcend to allow this to be try^d on a few con- demned Criminals, Some News-Writers, according to Cuftom, without any good Aurhority, fay it was likely to get into, private Familys, but mention no Particulars, C and confequently wants Confirmation j what the par- tial Accounts of theSucccfs of this Pradice in Boft,m fent . home, may do in the influencing fome to give into it, I thall not foretell. From this we may learn, that in En- gland they did not venture on it without Permiffion of the Government ^our Inoculating Parfpns do it in Spite pf the Government, or SeUH Men of the Town, Their Sixth Allegation mil favour of it is, Altho pro- curing Jlfnefs to a Mans own Perfon without any further View, be certainly a Sin ; yet if it be to prevent a greater, '( tho'uncertain )it becomes a Duty, From this Princi- ple, the greateft Abominations are allowable, v. g. The Curing or preventing a Chlorofis, ( whereof many die ) where in fome Cafes the beft Authors advife Matrimony, and Matrimony cannot be conveniently obtain'd. 1 have "heard fome Rakes fay, that a Gonorrhea well managed, has made them more healthy than before, and prevented the Return of fome periodical Ails-, with feveral other (fr) fuch vileHaftt (which I blufh to mention ) deduclble from the fame Principle which is made here convertiblt with the Sixth Commandment, Thoujbalt nat kill. Their Seventh Reajon, ( which is the only Argument they ought to ufe and rely on, ) is its Succefs. I need not tell them that there is fuccefsful Wickednefs for a time; or as John Williams fayr, GOD permittedPha% raoh'x Magicians, to imitate bis own Judgments, even to s tU hardening of the People's Hearts. Their Hiftpry of its Succefs is fhortly this. At firft they gave out; That it was a Method not infeSing, pro- curing only afmall quantity of Eruptions, but never Deatht nor any bad confequence, and was an infallible Security :; against ever after having the Small Pox* This was attef- ted ex verbo JSacerdotum ; and who would not have com- ply'd with it, if Prudence and Reafon founded partly on the Teftimony of fome who had been in the Levant, had not been ftronger than out Faith in thefe Parfons gratis diBum ; and in procefs of Time our own Experience con- cur'd with thefe Teftimonies: We foon found it mfe3»y # ing ; many have dy'd of the Infection received from the Inoculated, whofe Deaths in a great meafure lies at the Inotulators Doors, Then the Parfons gave up this Point, but continued to maintain the reft, till they found fome of the Inoculated with immenfe Number of Puftules, This they attribute to the difference of Clmate; and be- ing but Learners, we hope in a little Time to be more Ex- pert (fays Dr. M. ) but none ever dy'd of it thefe forty) tears, ( vide Some Account P. to. &c. ) then dyes the I- noculated Mrs. D——/, f befides feveral others who dye in the crowd when, the DiSemper was univerfal and at the height; for they acknowledge (P.n. of fome Account) that many more Were inoculated*than they judged proper U) merit ion, becaufe ofthe clamour of the People: (fome of the Inoculators faid fhe receiv'd the InfeSion in the com- mon Way, tho' the moft cautions of Women, and every i1 thing wrought as is ufual in Inoculation; Others o£ them fay fhe dy'd of Hyfterick Fits, notconfidering that Hyftewk Fits are no mortal Digeinper j and it betrays not (12 y not fo much their Ignorance as their WICKED NESSt< thus to impofe on the World ; for they certainly mufti know that moft Perfons agonizing, have Convulitona and Tremors, call'd the Agonies or Pangs of Death. Their DARING PRACTICE on Women with Child who mifcarry'd while under Inoculation, they do not menti- on, as if procuring Abortion were a very innocent Prac- tice i I forbear the Names of fome who are inftancesof this Wickedtiefs. Now at length the Diftemper in its na- tural Courfe abating, feveral who dye under Inoculation, can no longer be concealed ; Some of them now fay the Winter Scafon will not do, tho' it be the only Seafon prefcrib'd by their Authors ; And in the name of others, one of the Inoculators, a young Confcience keeper, fays, I am not at all Jbytofay, that fome may mifcarry.under it, becaufe God keeps us in a dependance on btmfelf in the ufe , of means ; and if a man dyes under Inoculation he dyes in tl)e ufe of means. O+IMPIET 1'J If a.Man may make free with his own Body Natural, becaufe in Confcience he thinks he ought to do fo, this not only countenances the old Roman Dodrine of Felo de fe, but is alfo a con- fiderable Step towards the making free with the Body Politick, v. g. He forefees fomething like to be amifs in the State, which in Confcience he is obliged to prevent by. a leffer lllnefs or Commotion; as has happened in feveral Places in Europe in former times by the Inftigati- onof fome who call therafelves Religious. As for the Confequences, Time muft clear up ; fome we know, whofe Inoculation Sores have been for a long Time, and ftill continue troublefome. : What has been faid in favour of it by way.ofC.inr, &c does not deferve mentioning; as the calling of it*dis- criminating Mark of the* Good from the Ungodly, the Saints from the Wicked; their throwing the Odium qf Party on the Anti-Inoculators: They who continue in an even fteedy Courfe, as before, are faid to form a Partyit. not thay who are adive, andendeavour to introduce new and dubious Practices and Cuftoms. OBRASS1 If it be a Party Bufinefs, it is of their pwn making; for we f 13) Htfy generally obferve, the Inoculated are generally the Devotees of fome Inoculating Parfon : At firft it was Con- gregattonal, being almpft confined to Mr. W*~—b's Hear- /W£ crs; then it fpread among the Devotees of Dr. M. and Mr. C. ; and lately many being buzz'd in the Eat with the great Lojfcs fuftain'd in the Natural Way, have as ft were in Defpair come into it. III. Reafons againft the Ufe of Inoculation at prefent! end until furtherLight. My humble Opinion of Inoculation ft as of all bold Experiments of Confluence in the PraSice of Phyfick% That whatever the Succefs or Confequences may be, ( and the more Tryals the more Light) they may be of a pub' lick Advantage, tho' at the Rifque of the firft Patients* If it anfwer, after Generations will reap the Benefit off it ; if otherways, the miferable Sufferers will be record- ed as bold, ralh, infatuated Fools, the Pradice for evet sifter afehor'd, and the Promoters thereof ftigmatized as Murtbcrers. All Tolid and found Phyhfopby,t\at is Natural Hiftory% is founded on Obfervations made, and Experiments taken of the various Adions and Influences of Natural Bodys on one another. I was always fond of this kind of Know. ledge, efpecially as it related to Humane Bodies in a Heal- thy or Morbid State ; and if thefe two dear CharadeTsoi? a Good Citi&n and Good Chriftian could be difpenfed With, I fhould have been pleafed to fee fome Thoufanda inoculated with feveral other Diftempets as well as the Small Po*\ but for the following Rtafons I could not ac prefent comply with this novel, raih, and dubious Piadice. i. Poyfonirtg and fpreadivg infeSion, are by the fcnat Laws of England Felony. Inoculation falls in with the flrft without any Conmdidion; and if a Perfon of fo weak a ConBitvtton, that any the leaft Illnefs may proVe fatal to him, fhould be inoculated, and Puffer but the tenthT^rt of what feveral of the Inoculated have done* he muft unavoidably perifh, and his hmtlator deem'd C guilty guilty of wilful Poyfo'ning, This is the Reafon I fup- pofe, why the Praditioners of BoftonthoughtthemfeJves not fafe to venture on a Thing of fuch Confequeuce. Suppofiag only One in a Thoufaud fhould die of this Method, it cannot with Safety to the Inoculator be pradis'd, without an Ad of Parliament, exempting Ino- culation by a fworn Praditioner from the Penaltys ofpojr foning and fpreading Infection. I think B—-n's Friends fhould-ad vile him to take his Tryal, while fo manyju- fiicious Magiftrates and Minifters are in the Humour of Inoculation, left any time hereafter, during his Natural Life, he be brought on his T^al either on the K IN G s Account, or by the Relations. z. The Perfonal Teftimomes of feven-^ Gentlemen, who have been in the Levant ( whereof, fome have been pub- lished in the Weekly News Letters) importing, that fome Inoculated have dy'd under it ( as *ve haye lately feen feveral ainongft ourfelves ) others have thereafter been miferable by its difmil Ejfeils;nnd Conftquenccs ; and fome have had the Small Pox ir\ ifje natural Way xup.twith» ftand'mg, But their Teftimonies fays Dr. C. M., are not worth a Straw ; tho' in Cafe of any felonious Adipn a-, gainft himfelf, they would be worth his Neck in any Court of Juftice. 3, It feeros agreeable to Reafon. and the Experience we have of Diftempers received by Contad, That by. Inoculation, not only fie Small Pox, bntmat-y other chro- nical Diftempers ( hereditary or acquired ) of the perfon from whom the pOfky{Matter is received, are communicated ta.tbeperfon inoculated; for all Confiitution Diftevipets have fome Tindure or Idea in every D/pp of our Juices.-, The acute Dtfiemper as fuch, from its Nature foon, ftiows it felf; but the chronical Ails, according to their Na- ture, ad flowly a id imperceptibly on our Bodys, and re- quire fome Time before they become manifeft. All the Town knows, how little nice the Inoculator has been in procuring good wholfome Juice ; not haying many Pa- tients in the common Way, he-was frequently oblige^ tQ have recourle to the Pusoi the Inoculated; thus com- plicating pUcatlng the Conftitutioh Diftempers of Two or more Perfons to be ingrafted on his Patients. I fhall not en- quire, what becomesof xht firft-Faculency of feveral who have been inoculated more than once. As in all Contagious Diftenipers, fo in this the Fnmes or Levain of the Difeafe, is fomething veiyfine and Sub- tile; What then becomes of the other grofsfeeculeut part of this-foreign Put or Corruption ingrafted ? In Reafonone would be apt to think, that it may prove the Ferment or firft Speck of fome chronical putrid Ail\ the cafe being much different from that of the Pus of Impoftumations and Ulcers proper, not malignant but accidental, which by daily experience we know may fafely be teceived^ack into the fame Mafs of Blood from whence icdid proceeded afterwards thrown off by fome- Emnnfiory. *» Some of their Incifions ( even in thofe who can fcarce be faid to have had the Small Pox, the number of the Pnftuies or Eruptions were fo few and without Put) run f*ofu]tly, one, two, three or more Months after they go abroad ; not in the'manner of Suppuration, Digeftion or wafting of the Subftance in the Part; but by way* of D/fchdrge, Evacuation, or Artificial Stcretion from the habit of the Body, and that without the Interpofition of any extraneous Body, as Lint, Tent, or Pea, to Iceep the Lips of the Incrfion from agglutinating, as in com- mon Iffues i^tbfulutely requifite, but meerly by the Vi-. cioufnefs or Malignity of the Humour difcharg'd, thefe Inoculated Ijfues are continued. Suppofe by any Intern- perjes of Body (which the moft healthy are liable to from the change of Weather, Diet, or other Accidents ) the Juices are put into a hurry; this vicious .Secntion (as much as ail other natural Secretions) is difturb'd for a Time, and the Malignant Humour either retain'd in the Blood, to the fpoilihg- of the Habit; or in Kile- tudtnary $],ib}e{is'(is do all other Fluxions ) takes its courfe to fome weak Parr, v. g, to the Lnvgiof thofa whofe Lungs are tender, to the Ktdneys of the Gravelly or Diabetical, to the Head of thofe affliited with Diftem- pets piers of the Read, &c, and confequently by itsMalignltf produce in thofe weak Parts either inftnfible Waftings ot indue Time Exuleer ations. This feems to account for the Subfequent Ails of the Inoculatid publickly declared by fome Gentlemen as above. As in fome the Ventral hues does not difcover it felf till after fome Months of Years, fo it may be with this LUES. I am apt to think, that if this Pradice be ever approved of, it may be advifable, to convert thefe Incifions into the Form of common Iffues, to continue for fome considerable Time. N. B. The Sores remaining after the worft Sor| of natural Small Pox, heal as kindly as any other acci- dental Sore or Exulceration not malignant. Moreover, whatever Ails and Difeafcs,efpecjaUy ckr^-. nieal, the Inoculated in the after Courfe of their Life may befubjed to ; many of their Neighbours, and per- haps fome of theuifelves, will be apt to lay the Blame on their former Inoculation; aadfo live in continual Anxif* ty and Difquietude of Mind, being for ever rendred incar Eible of enjoying that Petfedion of Happitiefs in thia ife, Mens faria in corporefano. This I fay may be the Cafe of fome. 4. The raftt and mifchievaus Methods ufed in propagating tlit practice. Inftead of contriving Methods to lecure the Inoculated from taking the Infedion the common Way, and their Neighbours from being infeded by them, they inoculate indifferently in all Cqjpaers, and fet , the Town all in a Flame in one Moment as it were ; ma- ny perijb who had the Infedion from the Inoculated,. whofe Deaths perhaps in for0 divino they may be found guilty of. Their Authors Timonius and Pylarinus tell them, The Perfon who coUeds the Matter, ought not to apply it, leaft a double Infe&ien eofue; aud that the Advantage of this Pradice is, that 3 fuitable Seafon and a w^U prepared Body may be had to rencounter the In- fedion ; but thefe things, as trivial, they negled, and; run headlong as if pufh d on by fome Fury. How confeitntioufiy do they tell us, that tho' it fpread Jnfedjon, there may be Methods eafily taken to prevent its (»7) its hazarding others that do not yet come into it; at the fame Time before thefe Methods are taken or in- the leaft endeavoured after, they lay all down tjwy can tfofelyte. They do all they can to perfwade the Country Towns to come into it, tho' they generally have efcaped in former Small Pox Times, and the Winter coming 04 with the hard continued Frofts may ftop its £rogrefs. Suppofe they compafs their WICKED DESJR£Sf and One in Ten, which is more than can be expeded to give into it ( not above one in Fifty in BoSton have been ^ inoculated ) indifferent Corners of theTpwn(for in their Bcribles they lay down no Method of feparating, thofe from others ) are inoculated, in a (hort time thofe in fed all the Town, fo as to have it the natural Way; with* out any Spirit of Prophecy by what we have feen of Small Pox Patients in the Country Towns one Third, per* haps one Half of the People, will perilh to tht depopu- lating of His Majt$y's good Province, The Reafons Au- thority may have to connive at this, I do not pretend to meddle with; but defire to be thankful to GOD, who iu hfs wjfe Providence, feems to put a Stop tp their Career, by the late Deaths of feveral Inoculated* fox Six Months paft the Infedion in Town has much kept off the Country (torn fupplying \is ; The Town is npw almoflclear, and In a few Weeks thofe who tied * might have return d in Safety; but by the Inoculator* Machinations, Inoculation or Infection is continued, and we are kept in Statu quo : Nay further, to add to our Calamities, Roxbury the Thospugh-Faretoi?o8ow,which hitherto had efcaped, is now under Inoculation, and the %a*ns Supply moie hindred than before. ' One of the Mifchiefs atending this Pradice, is, Fa- mily Divifions aud Heats. When GOD is pieafed to take to himfelf fome Relation, Servant or Slave' in the natural Way, v.g. a Child; the Wife with Bitternefs Tefleds on the Husbaad, telling him, Parfon —— fays, Inoculation would have fav'd our dear Child. And how many afflict themfelves, fince wrought upon by the Inoculating Ministers, becaufe of the Deaths of their near Relations ? The late inoculated Deaths make thefe People more e»fy in their Minds. If Contentions arife ( *S J fay they in their Cafes of Confcience, ( p. 9-) is no mat- ter to them, becaufe it was fo in our Saviours time, Jtat. ro. 35. For lam come tofet a Man at Variance a- Stainft his Father,and the Daughter agamft her Mother, &c. Thus they excufe their fpreadttig Contention. 0 vile abufe of the Scriptures] "'•'■ ■ IV. A few Remarks on the Pradice, and the manner t. of promoting it. , In a little vain Book, call'd Some Obfervations, Sec the Author fays, The Incifions moderate tbe firft Fever { or , Fever preceding the Eruption/tho'inmoft the Incifions ■ or Iffues do not run till the Pdek appear, and then but inconitderably; and they themfelves during this Fever • . ule Biifters more than we do in the common Way: And prevents tbefecond Fever aft be Turning ; notconfidering that they whofe Eruptions are few aVid favourable either wav, can have no putrid .Fever; thofe who are fuller have this putrid or fecond'fever from a return of fome* ofgreatCold,or we mail put a worfeCoihudiononfuch' ContradidiOiisalTerted almoft with the fame Breath. It iscommonly faid, th« the Inocul.ntckfmtllftmr.ger than tiiofeinthe-natur.nl Way and fame degree ; this I do not infill upon, tho' the additional fttnch oftbeir running %ores or Incifir ons and pu/trify'd Cabbage Leaf, oi^e would think, lhould» tht 5mi reswore. _ .. i....'3 .... • ■' • ■ ,Te f i? ) 'To fay, vt underftand no more of the Small lose Mia than ret did fotty Three Tears agq, is a fauty Imputation on the man* noble and ufeful Improvements in Phyfick fince that time. Have Dr. Sydenham, Morton, and other late ingenious pratiital Writer* on the.Snull Pox, wiiofe Wfitfnga we daily perufe, done notlv ins to the Satisfaction of this learned and pious Gentleman i His many phyftcal Blunders arc forgiven,, becaufe he matters not if he has oetray'd his Ignorance therein; he writes with . another Dcfignj -vis. Ferfus et ntfot, at any Kate to perfwade to inoculations .In the beginning of the Small Pox, they pray God may put * t ftyp to its fprcading, and at the fame time do all they can to fropagate it by Inoculation, which is equally infectious as in the natural Way j fome fay more contagious, becaufe after the Eruptions are dry'd up, the Inoculated walk about with their IJfues running a kind ofyariolus Matter. ( N. B. If any of them ■■ are found in mixt^fTemblies or fa Country Towns, while in this Condition, the Law of Nature and Self Prefervation feema to require the-Difcipline for mad Dogs, ) In one part ofPray- • cr to thank Cod for the t>ifeoytry, and a little after to pray con- 9 ditionally, that if it be not of God he may put aftop to it -, with ;.' many other fuch Expreffions in their Prayers, which in my ''" humble Opinion, feem to be a mocking of God, and an Abuft an their Hearers, whereof the greateft Part are againft procuring of Self-Illnefs./What ihall a Man do in fuch Cafe9 ? gotpwor- *• ihip where he cannot join, in Prayer with the Minifter i This r' has been a tumbling Block to ibme, and is much to the dif- credit of. exttmporary Frayers, where all is left: to the Parfon'-a e Vifcretion. t . if the Inoculators had defigned a publick Good, why did they run headlong unto it, without obferving the Circumftances and \ Cautions which might have made it ufeful; to btgin in the Heart of the Town, where was no Infection j to inoculate all Agis ahd Conjfitutions from the very Beginning, without being firlt aflur'd of it's Succefs on the Young and Hialthy. Why did tltey not petition the Goytrnment, that none fhould be iuoculated. £till his Name wasrecotded, that for the publick Good in times >•?.. come, k n ig it be known who dy'd. and whit ftate of Health , they-afterwards enjoy'd who fumv'di z-> alfo have contriv'd fome Method, that none might take the Infection from the Inocu- t taxed: Thif Ntjdccl has occafipned the Death of many. V I am forty, the World can:.ot reap that Benefit from thisrafh and bpld Exjierf meat; that might have been expe&ed ; The d>Uf. frombtir, ni'. ftnas AceJMius Home not always to btAppended upon, is ireduhiAi and whimfinal; the Operator is rajb and un- thinking: Who knows but they who havedyed or fullered much under Inoculation, if they h$d jiad bitter Mauasemjnr, migV1 tive had better fat*.' Wehave Jeifnt from oflt ; or C. Mo- Experience of fnocnlanor.. '. ^L_________________ . - m i**f ■ • • t. T**Mfc Small Pox may fomnimes tie **m*kUft*d. litae* testation. I cannot fay always* becaufe fome have been Iaocukad snore than ©nee before it wrought! and many have from ri^nce had only a fort of ervfii-n 9*>*rxWt no genuine Small Par, fa for as i am able to judge a. f*at the Small Pox/b ''fTC*, hftMumh mtrt favourable than in tire common vayjf Ihftfti* mL and *t altogether fi mortal: What the difrnal Con&dtn* eta may bill' fcaUflot pfttehd to determine; but Riafbn and the Tetfimohiea of4bme OenHe«en from cbe leyant, give nsrronnd to fufptft. 7. That not ene of the inoculated during tM f»aci afjfveefJTxMviiths has had the Stntil Vox in tht natural bay, fe far as we know 5 for the Inoculafors in every thing that makes againft them, bv LTES and EQyrrQCA%10N$ er.dea- •our to feeep u& in the' derfr. It is then a palhafi ye treytntion of the Small Po* for fome time, and not rery mortal!4 aHd con^ Ibquently may be of grcxt Ule to the Guinea Traders, when the Small tfox gewamong their Slavti aboard to inoritlate the whojtf. Cargo, and patch tHem up> for a-Market • as ia 'already the Prattle* with thit« in the" other Pox or Tarts, by feme fitghr% faUiatiw Curt to fit them up for a cfuick Market, tho* to the treat Damage of the next turtbafert. *■ If the DifMafiewfitfUenee* atsntit difcourage ttt,by a yitiated jonfiSHitbn *f the Inoculated and their trogervir, who knows: bat thlamayfee fo iaprovad upon, as to become a Specif ektrit^ +rtitiv« of the Small'9o*i but it muft firft be allowed ofby Ait. •fthe Ltgiflaeute (thefpreadingdf infettionl am afraid wii)' potwith (tanking render it odrbus )& profecutedJbxaMer ha'afc than 6w<^«/» fr«j»«;,^rfrf»»tn and foots. Andfuriutr, fup< pofing the Confequences befoch aa our Declarants fay, we may'. grocecd to try, If 4 Salivation or Antomonial, or Salphuiih« Coilrfc, Or. may-not toxatty carry off the remnant Faeculehcy'i: Thatis, IffIjetJUf l*ttytt*i\on-, with atubfequent Srf/tT4t»*(»7»,;&e.J ' may nor beSrnids^uate Sutctdaneum to this genuine Small rose.'- As ■ a Cautforfto a: certain Gentlemany, T who you know hi t%n«s paft hasten troubleforae to the R,' S. w'JcIV his trivial* er*lHlousStories yleaftby his Communications home, 'hemay^ imfopt ofr-our Mother C6umryJ\c isro head*er$£di That a true/ ind"fatti'TifiiVAch?e»r Cautions and "Rules ijrr "the Procedure lW>jif. may Be of Uje^nis. 3For my own Par t till after a few Yiarsf% J." Jfattlpaf^of&fMWTudrmtiit oflhfilSli ?r.i'(tico. * I "am! '~ W EfoaAfl;Boilon,ifie. 20. int.. SI K, r^r-fce. P, 5. 1fr^Ta«i^oeen job r