Excerpt from A Recommendation of Inoculation, According to Baron Dimsdale's Method Vail, (fo great is the power of even the molt fatal habits, rooted prejudices and the authority of great names yet in after times when the force of them weie difpelled, the minds of men being cleared from the mill which at firlt obfcured theni, became open to conviction, and, at this day, froni the difference of treatment, few traces are left of the former mortal effeets of the difeafe. Un fpeakable are our obligations, therefore, to this great man, wholehillory and exact defc1iption of the fymptoms of the natural {mall-pox Wltli' his method of cure, being founded on the 1111 mutable laws of nature, will endure thro' the lapfe of time, bid defiance to the cavils of lcepti cifm, and mock'the weal: attemgts of impotent critics to iniure or overturn it. The renowned Boerhaave, venerable for his great erudition and profound knowled e of the healing arts, after a laborious pcrufal of every thing Wiitten, in hi. Time, on the fubjeet, decla1 es there is nothing; to be added to what S y denmnn has delivered 1 on the natural {mall-pox.

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