39, 40.

For the strenuous opposition of the same clergy, see Weld, History of the Royal Society, vol.i, p.

464, note; also, for its comical side, see Nichol's Literary Illustrations, vol.
v, p.800.For the same matter in Scotland, see Lecky's History of the Eighteenth Century, vol.ii, p.83.For New England, see Green, History of Medicine in Massachusetts, Boston, 1881, pp.

58 et seq; also chapter x of the Memorial History of Boston, by the same author and O.W.
Holmes.

For a letter of Dr.Franklin's, see Massachusetts Historical Collections, second series, vol.vii, p.17.Several most curious publications issued during the heat of the inoculation controversy have been kindly placed in my hands by the librarians of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, among them A Reply to Increase Mather, by John Williams, Boston, printed by J.Franklin, 1721, from which the above scriptural arguments are cited.