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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    [ ] you, that the operations have fucceeded compleatiy, and that I have to day, the fixth from inoculation- inoculated feveral children with the matter from my firft patients. The Bramln has alfo commenced his pradlice in the town of Poona,—I doubt not of his fuccels, for he appears to have made himfelf Under your inftrudlions, perfeftly matter of the me? thod of operating, and of the whole progrefs of the infeftion.’* ExtraSf of a letter from Mr. Hoyes AJfJlant Surgeon ^ dited Cundapore Q£l, loth 1802, to Dr. Kdr Bombay, “ I wrote you a few lines informing you that the Cow-pox has fucceeded in three patients. From thefc three I have inoculated 30 more who have had the difeafe in the mofl; unequivocal manner, and without any complaint, except flight pain and fwel< ling in the axilla of the infected arm. I have now upwards of one hundred patients in different ftages of the diforder, and expect many more in a few days.” The following very fatisfa6lory account of the diffufion of the vaccine difeafe throughout the iflan J of Ceylon, as publifhtd in the Government Gazette by the Medical Supeiintendant General, Thomas C hrittie