Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir].
- Keir, George.
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *02 ] put 25 of them to the tefl: of variolous contagion, and it is with peculiar fatisfaflion I have to (late, that not one of the whole has fuffcred the fmallcft degree of ficknefs or conditutional derangement, nor further afFedlion, than a flight inflamation at the punflured part, the efFedls of which completely dif- appeared in a very few days. Four ofthe children were inoculated with thread, impregnated with variolous matter, fent to me by the Phvfician General in November laft, the only appearances that followed were fuch as might have been expedled from the introdudion of an extrane- ous body fuch as a piece of thread under ihe cuticle. Soon after this four more were inoculated with virus, in a flill more adtive flate, fent to me from Callicur, but without being followed by any fymptom of fmall pox. In order however to be more fully fatisfied as to the genuine nature of the difeafe amongft us, I pro- cured a further fupply of variolous matter from the fame fource, and with it inoculated a native child of two years of age, that had not had either difeafe, the dillindl fmall pox follow'ed ; and from this fubjeib the remaining 17 were inoculated. The matter was taken frefn from the arm of the child, and from the primary puflule, and the virus carefully inferced with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
