purifying and sudorific medicines in cheerful concert, were "grafted"
together, "broke out" together, were feverish together, sweat together,
scaled off together, and convalesced together. Not a very prepossessing
conjoining medium would inoculation appear to have been, but many a
pretty and sentimental love affair sprang up between mutually
"pock-fretten" New Englanders.

The small-pox hospitals were of various degrees of elegance and comfort,
and were widely advertised. I have found four separate announcements in
one of the small sheets of a Federal newspaper. From the luxurious
high-priced retreat "without Mercury" were grades descending to the
Suttonian, Brunonian, Pincherian, Dimsdalian, and other plebeian
establishments, in which the patient paid from fifteen to as low as
three dollars per week for lodging, food, medicine, care, and
inoculation. At the latter cheap establishment each person was
obliged to furnish for his individual use one sheet and one
pillow-case--apparently a meagre outfit for sickness, but possibly
merely a supplemental one.

This is a fair example of the prevailing advertisement of small-pox
hospitals, from the _Connecticut Courant_ of November 30, 1767:

"Dr. Uriah Rogers, Jr., of Norwalk County of Fairfield takes this
method to acquaint the Publick & particularly such as are desirous
of taking the Small Pox by way of Inoculation, that having had
Considerable Experience in that Branch of Practice and carried on
the same the last season with great Success; has lately erected a
convenient Hospital for that purpose just within the Jurisdiction
Line of the Province of New York about nine miles distant from N. Y.
Harbour, where he intends to carry said Branch of Practice from the
first of October next to the first of May next. And that all such
as are disposed to favour him with their Custom may depend upon
being well provided with all necessary accomodations, Provisions &
the best Attendance at the moderate Expence of Four Pounds Lawful
Money to Each Patient. That after the first Sett or Class he
purposes to give no Occasion for waiting to go in Particular Setts
but to admit Parties singly, just as it suits them. As he has
another Good House provided near Said Hospital where his family are
to live, and where all that come after the first Sett that go into
the Hospital are to remain with his Family until