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Preventative   Listen
noun
Preventative  n.  That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive.





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... she was only a child at the time. Shortly afterwards the small-pox broke out in the settlements, and Edward Coy determined to have his family "inoculated." Inoculation, it may be observed, was regarded as the best preventative of small-pox before vaccination was introduced by Dr. Jenner. The results, however, were not uniformly satisfactory. In the case of the Coy family, Mr. Coy and his wife lay at the point of death for a considerable time, and their second son, ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
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