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Vienna in the beginning of the month of August, did not 

 find him at Bassora, it was dispatched to Bashirc, where 

 he received it at the end of November. Dr. Milne, and 

 Mr. Jukes an English surgeon, who for four months had 

 despaired of seeing vaccination succeed, were agreeably sur- 

 prised to find lint impregnated with matter still moist, 

 which produced its effect on the first trial* The ivory 

 lancets produced no effect whatever. 



" I do not know in the whole^history of the vaccine any 

 instances more satisfactory of what may be done, by care, in 

 the manner of preserving the matter, than the success of that 

 which 1 some time ago sent to Bagdad, and lately to Ba- 

 flhire. We have witnessed the incalculable good produced 

 by the first of these drops; and I have reason to hope that 

 what has been so happily introduced into Persia, will be at- 

 tended with as salutary effects in that immense and cele- 

 brated empire. 



" Dr. Milne and Mr. Jukes inform me from Bashire, 

 of date the 11th and 15th of January, that their first suc- 

 cess made a great sensation in that town, which at present 

 is one of the most commercial in the whole empire. They 

 announce also that a mission is about to set out for Tehran, 

 the seat of government ; and Mr. Jukes, who is to accom- 

 pany it in the quality of surgeon, has taken the most effi- 

 cacious measures to put vaccination under the protection 

 of the governors of the provinces, and even to explain the 

 history and utility of it to the sovereign, to whom they will 

 be presented. 



tc I am very impatient to receive the further details of 

 this expedition. Mr. Jukes has promised to enter into a 

 regular correspondence with me. Dr. Miine, who has been 

 invited to Bombav, is succeeded at Bassora by Mr. Donald, 

 who proposes to do every thing in his power to favour the 

 propagation of the vaccine. The East India company have 

 taken into consideration my exertions for introducing vac- 

 cination into the British-settlements; and the secretary has 

 made known to Mr. Paget, the English envoy at the court 

 of Vienna, by a letter dated December 9, 1803, that the 

 directors have voted me the sum of two hundred guineas to 

 purchase a piece of plate. 



" I have received also from the hospodar of Wallaehia 

 a magnificent India shawl, accompanied by a very nattering 

 lctter w \vhich his serene highness condescended to write to 

 me, and in which he gives an account of the efficacious 

 measures he has taken to diffuse vaccination throughout 

 that principality. J. dl Cakko." 



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