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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![RxtraEt of a Letter from the Reft dent at Bagdad to the Governor of Bombay, dated the ]th of Novem-» her 1802. Doctor Short, who has been relieved by Mr. af-r fiftant Surgeon Hinc, now proceeds to the Prefi- dency, and as it was principally owing to his ability and attention, that we were able to produce the cow pox at Bagdad, about which, you were fo much in- terefted, 1 hope you will pardon the liberty I take, in mentioning it as a circumftaace meriting the at- tention of the Hon’ble Board, Extract of the Governor of Bombay's an/wer dateJ the 2^d March 1803. It afPards a very comfortable reflection, that we have been at laft: able, through your afllftance, and that of Lord Elgin, to propogate the vaccine di^ feafe throughout India, as well as experimentally to afeertain, that it is of the very belt kind, and per- fecdly fccures thofe who have had it, from the fmall- pox—by which, the lives of millions yet unborn may, and mufl: indeed, be favedj and if our in- fluence in India, has ever entailed evils on the na- tives; this one important aCl of kindnefs on our part, ought to be viewed as no inconfiderable or inadequate compenfation. W’hen](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
