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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    [l#)]l##^ PREFACE. A HE substance of the following Pages has already been published in occasional Reports on the state of Vaccination in Ceylon, inserted in the Ceylon Government Gazette, for the purpose of exciting attention to the subject in that Island. The intention of these reports having been in a great degree fulfilled, by the expulsion of Small-Pox from Ceylon, the general adoption of Vaccination by all classes of its Inhabitants, and the establishment of that practice on a broad and firm basis, by the liberal and decisive measures of Government, I had considered the question a» at rest; and the more so, as in an extensive communication and correspondence with the Medical Men in different parts of India, I never heard of one who had the smallest doubts, as to the preservative efficacy of Cow-Pox, or the propriety of the general system of Vaccination, there adopted. I had, therefore, no intention of ever again trespassing on the public, on the subject of Vaccination; but on my return to England last year, I was greatly surprised to find that some degree of scepticism and incredulity still existed about the efficacy of the practice; and several of my Reports having found a place in different periodical publications, it has been suggested by some of my medical friends, and particularly