http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 16 May 2014 COOGAN story _____________________________________________________________________ appearing in "Belfast Newsletter" [Northern Ireland], 18 JUL 1769, PAGE 2: SMALL POX INOCULATIONS IN CARLOW As the success of the Suttonian Art of Inoculation depends principally of the Efficacy of Medicines, the following Certificates are re-published from the Dublin Papers, only to convince the Public, that the Suttonian Artists can inoculate with the utmost Safety at any Season of the Year. WE the several principal Inhabitants of the County of Carlow, do Certify, in Justice to MR. Houlton, that he has inoculated within the last four Months, our Children and Six Hundred other Persons whom he conducted through the Small Pox, with that Safety, Singularity and Dispatch which justly characterize the Suttonian Art of Inoculation. At the same Time, we thank the above Gentleman for his great Charity to the Poor of this County, Three Hundred of whom he Inoculated gratis. Beauchamp Bagenal Robert Eustace Thomas Bennet John Vigers Thomas Cooper Richard Pack Arthur Bailie John Watson Samuel Bruitter Marley Gore John Payne David Gormon James Roe John Devereaux Edward Coogan Clement Wolseley George Humphries Mathew Coogan Peter Gale Francis Hopkins Dennis Byrne James Fitzmoris Owen Wheland Owen Coughlin Mr. Houlton is now at Armagh and will Inoculate Families according to their several Circumstances He will attend any Distance no exceeding fifteen Miles and requests that all Favours may be directed to him a the Widow McCullough's in Armagh. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Medical_03.htm _____________________________________________________________________