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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![up In phialsj or any other fccurc method, as td reach Bombay in a hate fit to give the in'cftion* it would be rendering great benefit to India, where thoiifands now annually fall vidims to the ordinary kind. Perhaps to fecure the matter ar, riving here in a proper ftatc, it may be expedient to have it renewed by inoculation at Bagdad:—but of this Mr. Short the Phyfician w'ith you, inuft be the befi ji-Jdge. Mean while, in aid of the endea- vours which 1 doubt not you will make to fo good an end as the prefent; 1 have requefted the favor of his Excellency Lord Elgin, to countenance and allifi whatever means, on your application, the Me- dical Gentlemen at Conftantinople may judge the bell adapted to the fecuring of its tranfiniflion in the frefhefl: pradicable fiatc. I need not fuggefi that t’ne matter of the cow- pox Pnould not be fumigated^ as that ctfiroys its virtue, nr rillts doing fo, as was experienced lately, in the inuance of Ibmc that the Hon’blc Mr. Bruce brotight with him to Bombay. JLxtrcM cf a Letter fror,} His Excellency the Eight ]Jon He the FmvI of Elgin, to the Hcn'hle Jena- than Diincnn Efq. dated July i8ot. “ I have this moment the honor of receiving your Letters of the 24th and 25th tf March, and tho’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
