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For NOVEMBER 1765.

CONTAINING,

More in Quanticp and greater Dariety than any Bock of the kind and Price.

1. An authentic Account of the inoculation of the Duchefs of Boufflers in France, who afterwards took the fmall-pox in the natural way.

II, The Duchefs's certification, under her own hand.

III. The conduct of the late adminiftration impartially confidered.

IV. Dr Jibnfon's account of Shakespeare's plays, continued.

V. A literary notification.

VI. Original letters of Henry IV. of France to Madame de Grament, on a variety of interefting fubjects.

VII. Articles from VOLTAIRE'S Dictionaire Philofopbique.

VIII. Obfervations on the apoplexy, with the intentions of cure.

IX. Remarkable inftances of the fafcina

ting power of the Rattle-fnake on men, birds and beasts.

X. Sudden fick nefs by the force of imagination.

XII. The trial of Catharine Nairne and Pa
trick Ogilvy, for inceft and murd er..
XIII. Cafe of a man wounded by a dra-
gon fish.

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XIV. New discoveries in Suffex.
XV. Anecdote of Maithal Keith.
XVI. POETRY. An Indian's speech to his
countrymen; Epitaphs on the Duke of
Cumberland; the Morning, &c. &c.
XVII. Books published, with Remarks.
review of Dr JOHNSON's Shakespeare.-
Mofes and Bolingbroke. Dialogue con-
cerning the fubjection of women to their
hufbands.-Effay on Luxury. Philofo-
phical Reveries. Advantages of inland
navigation..

XVIII. Remarkable Events. Conduct of the
Penfylvanians on the arrival of the ftamps.
Uferul hints, on various fubje&ts, &c.
XIX. Hiporical Chronicle. Royal faneral;
dying declaration of Lieut. Ogilvie; re-
folutions of the Perfylvanians, c.

XX. Lift of births, deaths, and marriages; XI. Mr Pott's account of the Fiflula in Ano. with promotions, preferments, &c. &c. With a beautiful perfpective View of his late Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland's Lodge in WINDSOR GREAT PARK, finely engraven on Copper; alfo a Plan of the late dreadful Fire in Leaden ball-f ., . with the Names of the principal Sufferers.

By SYLVAUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON Printed by D. HENRY, at St JOHN'S GATE.

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Gentleman's Magazine;

For NOVEMBER 1765.

Inoculation for the fmall pox having met
with great oppofition in France, any
little mifcarriage that happens from ig-
norance or inexperience, is mifreprefent-
ed by its enemies, as a just reafon for A
probibiting the practice. The cafe of
the Duchefs of Boufflers gave the op-
pofers great advantage; it was there
fore, neceffary for ber phyfician, one of the
mof eminent inFrance, to flate berGrace's
cafe, as it really happened, by which
be is forced to confefs his own mif-
take, in order to undeceive the public.
The affair has made a great noife a-
broad, but bas, not been generally un-
aerfood bere, and, therefore, the fol-
lowing authentic Account is inferted:
Tranflation of Monf. Gatti's own Letter
to a Friend, on the Subject.

T is but too true,
that the Duchefs of
Boufflers, whom I
inoculated, about
two years and an
half ago, is juft re-
covered from the

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natural fmall pox, which proved to be a diftinct and favourable fort. This event having greatly excited the attention of the public, I thought it my duty to give the world a particular account of the duchefs's inoculation; and the has, upon my application, been pleafed to recollect all the circumftances, and to E favour me with the following certification figned with her own name :

On the 12th of March 1763, I was inoculated for the fmall pox, and about four or five days afterwards, a redness appeared round the orifice, which Monf. Gatti called an inflam mation, and affured me was a fign F that the fmall pox had taken effect: These were the very terms he used: This redness or inflammation increaf. ed every day, and about the feventh or eighth day, the wound began to

fuppurate. There appeared alfo about the wound fix mall rifings, or pimples, which fucceffively fuppurated, and disappeared the next day. again affured me, that the fmall pox Monf. Gatti, upon thefe appearances,

had taken effect. In the afternoon of the eleventh or twelfth day of my inoculation, I felt a general uneafinefs and emotion; a pain in my head, and my back, and about my heart; in confequence of which, I went to bed however, and rofe without any diffooner than ordinary: I flept well, order in the morning. Thefe fymptoms Monf. Gatti affured me were the forerunners of the eruption. The next day a pretty large rifing or pimple, appeared in my forehead, which came to a head, turned white, and then dried away, leaving a mark which continued many days.

The wound in my arm continued to fuppurate feven or eight days, and Monf. Gatti now affured me that I had nothing to fear from the finall pox; and upon this affurance I relied without the leaft doubt, and continued in perfect confidence of my fecurity till the natural fmall pox appeared. I continued very well during the whole time of my inoculation, except one day, as mentioned above, and I went out every day.

Monmorency, D. de Bouflers.

It is very true that I affured the Duchefs, fhe had nothing to fear from the fmall pox; but the event has proved that I was mistaken.

I confiderd the accidents or fymp'toms which followed the incifion, as certain figns that the inoculation had taken effect; as the characteristic fymptoms of the inoculated fmall-pox did not follow, I mean a fever fucceeded by a fuppuration of the wound, a fuppuration different from that which might take place before the fever, I thought that the action of the variolus virus could produce no other effect

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I was perfuaded, according to the general opinion, that when figns of the fmall pox having been taken, ap. pear round the incifion, that difeafe B will certainly follow, fuppofing the patient to be fufceptible of it, and that if the difeafe does not then follow, the patient is not fufceptible of it. The cafe of the Duchefs proves that this opinion is falfe, whether the figns of the fmall pox having been taken are equivocal, or whether the C virus may act upon that particular part without fpreading to the rest of the body. I make no account of the pimple which appeared upon her forehead, because, it had neither the form, nor the courfe of a variolous pufule, and the Dutchefs herfelf, who D has now good reafon to be well acquainted with variolous puftules, is of the fame opinion.

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As the fame thing that has happened to the Duchefs has happened alfo to many others where inoculation is frequent, and as it may and must happen again, it is of great importance to prevent the mistakes, and calm the anxieties that it may produce. And for this purpofe, I have always thought that every patient who has received the real fmall pox by inoculation, ought to have a certificate of it given them by their phyfician.I have given many fuch certificates, and IF hould be glad if every perfon whom I have inoculated would apply to me for one.

The Conduct of the late Miniftry impar
tially confidered.

It is not furpring, that those who
Tis not furprising, that thofe who G

and commerce, fhould entertain but
a mean opinion of our understanding.
The late Ministers, while they conti-
nued in power, treated us like flaves;
fince they have been out of power,
they confidered the whole British na-
tion as a mob.

The public, for a confiderable time, has been upon an enquiry into the conduct of thofe Minilters. We had,

ring their adminiftration, feen peral liberty attacked, the liberty of

Parliament outraged, commerce injured, and our colonies, by a series of measures at once violent and impotent, exasperated even to sedition and revolt.

Instead of giving the public any fatisfaction in thefe points, they have thought proper to entertain us daily, for these three months paft, with a ftory of a quarrel of theirs with the Earl of Bute.

It is indeed natural enough for them, who confider public employment only as private emolument, to look no further than to the man who influenced their coming in or their going out; and, as they imagine him inftrumental in either, to choak him with fultome panegyric, as they did formerly; or to pelt him with illíberal abule, as they do at prefent.

But there is a wide difference between their opinions and those of honeft men. We cannot be perfuaded, to pass by the conduct of Minifters as a matter of no importance, and to attach our felves folely to the anecdote and intrigue of their changes and removes. We are not yet fo grofs in our understandings: We are not yet fo dulled by the indignities we have fuffered under their administration.

By their writers it appears that they have to totally obliterated from their own minds every idea of the duty of their late ftation, that they feem not to think that fuch ideas have any exiftence in ours. In their abuse of Ld Bute, they fay not a fyllable of his minifterial conduct; in recommending themselves, they utter fcarce a word in defence of their own meaJures. They have been inceffant in their invectives against the present Minitry; yet they have been abfolutely

filent on the conduct of those who compose it, either in Parliament or in Adminiftration.

They tell the fuffering public tales of a Favourite, and of fecret influence: They entertain you with anecdotes of a conference on one day, of a meffage on another, of a negociation on a third; of lighting up the Monument, and of hanging it in mourning.

But it were to be wifhed, that those Minifters, who entertain us with fo many ftories, would at laft do us the favour to fay fome few words of the H political meafures of Ld Bute; of the oppofition they made to thofe meafures; or, if they made no oppofition, of their repentance for the part they took in their execution. When we approve