die one Time or other of the Small-Pox. But that the Reader may be able to judge, whether the Engliſh or thoſe who differ from them in opinion, are in the right, here follows the Hiſtory of the fam'd Inoculation, which is mention'd with ſo much Dread in France.
The Circaſſian Women have, from Time immemorial, communicated the Small-Pox to their Children when not above ſix Months old, by making an Inciſion in the arm, and by putting into this Inciſion a Puſtle, taken carefully from the Body of another Child. This Puſtle produces the ſame Effect in the arm it is laid in, as Yeſt in a Piece of Dough: It ferments, and diffuſes through the whole Maſs of Blood, the Qualities with which it is impregnated. The Puſtles of the Child, in whom the artificial Small-Pox has been thus inoculated, are employ'd to communicate the ſame Diſtemper to others. There is an almoſt perpetual Circulation of it in Circaſſia; and when unhappily the Small-Pox has quite left the Country, the In-
