An inquiry, into the small-pox, medical and political ... / by Robert Walker.

  • Walker, Robert, 1755-1808.
Date:
1790
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    % 24 First Accounts Mr Holwell, a gentleman of refpeftable rank and character,, who redded long in India, and fome y£ars ago publifhed a ju- dicious account of the manner of inocu- lating for the fmall-pox in that country, takes particular notice of this obfervation of Dr Friend’s, and confirms the truth of what he fuggefied, in the following words: ‘ The fagacity of this conclufion, later ‘ times and difcoveries have fully verified: ‘ At the period in which the Aught or rah ‘ Bhadc fcriptures of the Gentoos, were ‘ publifhed (according to the Bramins, ‘ three thoufand, three hundred, and fixty- 1 fix years ago), this difeafe mull then have 4 been of fome handing, as thofe fcriptures 4 inftitute a form of divine worfhip, with 4 poojahs or offerings to a female divinity, ‘ ftiled by the common people, Gootee ha * ‘Tag or an, the Goddefs of Spots, whofe ‘ aid and patronage are invoked, during the 4 continuance of the fmall-pox feafon, alfo ‘ in the meafies and every cutaneous erup- * tion, that is in the finalleft degree epi- ‘ demical. Due weight being given to ‘ this circumftance, the long duration of * the difeafe in Indojlan, will manifeftly