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John Zephaniah Holwell

English surgeon and temporary Governor of Bengal (1711-1798)

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  • An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies. With ... observations on the ... mode of treating that disease in those parts / [J.Z. Holwell].

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    An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies. With ... observations on the ... mode of treating that disease in those parts / [J.Z. Holwell].

    John Zephaniah Holwell | Date: 1767
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    Interesting historical events, relative to the province of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan. With a seasonable hint ... to ... the Court of Directors of the East India Company. As also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah. And a dissertation on the metempsychosis ... / [J.Z. Holwell].

    John Zephaniah Holwell | Date: 1766-1771
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    Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan. With a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. As also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah. And a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell.

    John Zephaniah Holwell | Date: 1765-1771

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