Several reasons proving that inoculating or transplanting the small pox, is a lawful practice,…

Men of Honour, and Learning, and Incontestable Veracity, not one or two, but a considerable Number of them, agree in the Relation they give us, of it's being used with constant Success in the Levant. It has been used upon vast Multitudes, even many Thousands, and for some Scores of Years: And when regularly used, it yet appears not, that ever one Person miscarried of it, or had the Small Pox after it. We have sufficient Proofs that it is a growing Practice in those Countries. If it had been unsuccessful, or been attended with bad Consequences, it must needs have been put out of Countenance, and have ceased long ago. Such Testimonies on the other side, as our People have been frighted withal, are not worth a Strate. No Man of sense that considers them can lay weight upon them: Ask us not, why we say so!

Men of Honour, and Learning, and Incontestible Veracity, not one or two, but a considerable Number of them, agree in the Relation they give us, of it's being used with constant Success in the Levant. It has been used upon vast Multitudes, even many Thousands, and for some Scores of Years: And when regularly used, it yet appears not, that ever one Person miscarried of it, or had the Small Pox after it. We have sufficient Proofs that it is a growing Practice in those Countries. If it had been unsuccessful, or been attended with bad Consequences, it must needs have been put out of Countenance, and have ceased long ago. Such Testimonies on the other side, as our People have been frighted withal, are not worth a Strate. No Man of sense that considers them can lay weight upon them: Ask us not, why we say so!

And we have an Army of Africans among our selves, who have themselves been under it, and given us all the Assurance, which a Rational Mind can desire, that it has long been used with the like Success in Africa. Yea, Behold, ye yourselves have seen it. The Operation has been performed on an Hundred & more, in the Town of Boston: And not one of them has miscarried: They have every one of them hitherto done well. They all give Thanks to our Merciful Redeemer for leading them into it. They would every one of them rather undergo it again, and many times over, than suffer the Small Pox as People ordinarily suffer it in the common way of Infection. The Story of one Dying after it, is trumped up with so much folly and falsehood, that it is unworthy to have any Answer given to it. In fine; Experience has declared, that there never was a more unfailing Remedy employed among the Children of Men.