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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    tion of their children by inoculation, [vacci- nation.] In the year 1806, the number of our Vac- cinations considerably increased, and in Ja- nuary of that year, the contagion of Small- Pox became extinct in the district of Jaffna- patnam, by means of Vaccination, which had been very successfully and extensively prac- tised there, since its re-establishment in March 1805. In February 1806, the only part of Ceylon where Small-Pox existed, was Aripo, where a great concourse of strangers Mas assembled from the different parts of India, for the pur- pose of attending the Pearl Fishery, and where the disease was introduced by a man who landed from the coast with Small-Pox, which unfortunately was communicated to a few other persons, before the necessary measures for prevention could be taken. On the breaking up of the Fishery in April, the disease was brought to Columbo, where we had enjoyed an exemption from it since 1804, but it did not spread to any extent, and the alarm occasioned by its appearance, greatly encreased the number of our Vaccinations, at the same time that the existence of the con- tagion, afforded us an opportunity of proving by variolous inoculation and exposure of our patients: