An account of the ravages committed in Ceylon by small-pox, previously to the introduction of vaccination : with a statement of the circumstances attending the introduction, progress, and success, of vaccine inoculation in that island.

  • Christie, Thomas, 1773-1829.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An account of the ravages committed in Ceylon by small-pox, previously to the introduction of vaccination : with a statement of the circumstances attending the introduction, progress, and success, of vaccine inoculation in that island. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    [ 70 ] Bencoolen, by the schooner Umpire, I hare recommended as the most certain means of effecting this important object, the sending on board a sufficient number of persons who have not had the Small-Pox, for the purpose of keeping up a succession of the disease, on living subjects during the voyage, and as I conceive that the successful practice of this Inoculation, requires more nicety and discri- mination, than is generally supposed, or could well be acquired by a gentleman not of the Medical Profession in a few days, I have also recommended, that instead of entrusting the preservation of the disease to the Com- mander of the vessel, a Medical Assistant should be sent from this in charge of the pa- tients. For this purpose, I have selected Mr. Vanderhoven, who has long been in the habit of attending my Inoculations, and also of performing the operation himself. I beg leave to enclose for your information, a copy of my instructions to him, and I have directed him as soon as he shall arrive at Bencoolen, to wait on you with his register and journal of patients. I trust he will be successful in conveying the genuine disease to your quarter of the world, and that it will prove as valuable a blessing