Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir].
- Keir, George.
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India / [by George Keir]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ « ] important difcovery to every part of India, perhaps to China, and the whole eaftern world. We (hall fpare no pains in accomplifhing a purpofe fo dcfi- rable, by which one of the greatefl: evils that has afflided humanity, may be diminiflicd in a great de- gree, or even extinguilhed altogether. In the courfe of the lad twelve months, we have repeatedly received by fea from England the vac- cine matter, with which many children have been inoculated to no purpofe. We were not more fuc- cefsful with matter which was fent to us diredly by land from Conftantinople. Fortunately Dr. Short, a Surgeon on this Eftablifhment, refiding at Bagdad, produced the difeafe at that place. He immediately forwarded the matter to BufTora, where Mr. Milne, the Surgeon of that Refidency, alfo fuccceded in infeding a patient with itj—Mr. Milne foon afterwards inoculated a number of other chil- dren, and he fent the vaccine matter to us by fe- veral (liips. Even with this matter, we were for a time unfuccefsful, and after thirty or forty trials by various methods and by different Surgeons. A fortunate inoculation at length produced the vac- cine difeafe in Anna Duflhall, who is perhaps the firft human being who underwent it in India. This child, the daughter of a fcrvant of Captain Hardic, 13](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28707631_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
