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AN
ACCOUNT
Of the Manner of
Inoculating for the Small Pox
in the East Indies.
AN
ACCOUNT
Of the Manner of
Inoculating for the Small Pox
in the East Indies.
On perusing lately some tracts uponthe subject of Inoculation, I determinedto put together a few notesrelative to the manner of Inoculation,practised, time out of mind, by the Braminsof Indostan; to this I was chiefly instigated,by considering the great benefit that mayarise to mankind from a knowledge of thisforeign method, which so remarkably tendsto support the practice now generally followedwith such marvellous success.
By Dr. Schultz's account of Inoculation,page 65, note (9), it should seem,2that the world has been already obligedwith a performance of the kind which Ihave now undertaken, by a Dutch author,a friend of Mr. Chais; but as this is allI know of that work, it shall not discouragemy proceeding with my own, themore especially as that performance is in aforeign language, and may not much benefitmy country.
As many years are elapsed, since a themeof this nature has employed my thoughtsand attention; I will hope for every favorableindulgence from the candor of thatlearned and respectable Body, to whosejudgment I most readily submit the followinghistory and observations.
It has been lately remarked by a learnedand judicious ornament of the College ofPhysicians, "That the Art of Medicinehas, in several instances, been greatlyindebted to Accident; and that some ofits most valuable improvements havebeen received from the hands of Ignoranceand Barbarism; a Truth, remarkably3exemplified in the practice of Inoculationof the Small Pox."—However