Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir].

  • Keir, George.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ =8 ] vaccine difeafe appeared. It has lince been pfo^ pagated to the diftrldts of Molative & JafFnapatam, from whence it will loon be extended to the coaft^ As you have not yet fucceeded at Madras, I take the liberty to inclofe you fome cotton threads, im* bued with vaccine matter, taken this day the 9th from inoculation, from a child of European parents* the puftule on whofe arm furnilhed matter for fevcn children bcfides. Every friend to humanity mutl vvilh you fuccels in your endeavours to introduce and diffufe this va>? Juable difeafe, which is proved to be a fafe and mild antidote, for that moll loathfome and fatal one the fmall pox, which ’tis to be ardently hoped w'ill foon be extirpated from this country. His Excellency Governor North impreffed with the Importance of the difeovery, has prohibited the further admilTioii of patients into the fmall pcx Hofplcal, which he means to fupprefsat the end of the prefent month, when the attention of the Me- dical Superintendants and overfeers of that Eka- bli(l:iment will be confined to the propagation of the vaccine cUreafe; thus completing the chain o humane and liberal improvements for which His |.'!xcellcncy is fo eminently diilinguiihcd:” Thtf