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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![[ 9^ ] infedion has not appeared fince JiinelaQ:, until late- ly. A child from Calicut labouring under the fmall- pox arrived here laft month, and the difeafc foonap- peared in feveral places, and has enabled us to put our Cow-pox to the trial.” On the 23d ultimo I inoculated eight fubjedls with variolous matter, and four more on the day after, the matter was obtained on the 8ih day of the eruption, from a fubjedt labouring under the natural fmall pox. The virus was carefully infer- ted into each fubjed in two places, the children in- oculated on the 23d had the difeafe in Auguft lad, and thofe inoculated the day after in November. The appearances have been the lauie in all of them; on the fourth day the wounds were flighily inflamed, on the fixth day they contained a little pus, and had a,n angry appearance; on the loth day the pus was dried and the fcabs ready to fall off; neither fever, npr eruption, nor any indifpofition, or comlitutional affcOtion, followed thefc trials.” GEORGE KEIR. ExtratJ of a Letter from Mr. Ahcrcromhie, dated ylrcoty December 2^’ 1 802. » I formerly mentioned, that 1 had inoculated feveral children with the cow-pox matter which yo-i were](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
