1803.] Account of the Introdudtion of the Cow-Pox into India. 
-good-tempered, and to her quietnefs and 
patience in fuffering the operation, its 
fuccefs is in fome mealure to be attri- 
buted.” On the 22d day. of June, the 
Sth day of the diteafe, five children were 
inoculated with virus from the pultule. 
Thefe tubjects were all affected in the 
‘fame way; and as the local and confitu- 
tional fymptoms were fimilar in. all of 
them, every medical man who examined 
the puftule, was decidedly of opinion, 
that the difeafe they had produced was 
of a genuine nature. The phylicians at 
Bombay had it now in their power to 
communicate the benefit of this impor- 
tant difcovery to every part of India, per- 
haps to China, and the whole Eaftern 
World. Nor do they feem, under the ac- 
tive and animating influence of the excel- 
lent governor, the great propagator and 
patron of vaccination in the Eat, to have 
{pared any pains in the accomplifhment 
of a purpofe fo delirable; by which one 
of the greareft evils that has affligted hu- 
manity, may be, ina greet degree, dimt- 
nifhed, or even altogether excinguithed. 
Dr. Scott, in particular has been unwea- 
ried and conitant in nis exertions for the 
diffufion of fo heavenly a biefling.. The 
zealous and unceafing efforis ot Dr. An- 
derfon, phyfician general at Fort St. 
George, are alfo eminently diltinguifhed. 
** The intereft occafioned by, the account 
of the introduégtion of vaccine inocuiation 
at Bombay, was at Madras great and ge- 
neral. And Dr. Anderfon was at the 
pains of circulating, through the medium 
of the Madras Gazette, all the reports 
that were tranimitted to him from Bom- 
bay on this fubject. As inoculation 
from the cow-pox was introduced from 
Bombay at Madras, fo trom Madras 
this mercitul difcovery proceeded, now 
in a northe:ly divection to the prefidency 
of Bengal.”’ 
It was not to be apprehended, that the 
progrefs of knowledge and concomitant 
alleviation of human mifery would Le 
neglected by the Marquis of WELLES- 
LEY :—Wellefley, ever prone to'encourage 
the fciences and the arts, which he ho- 
nours, loves, and cultivates. 
The governor general in council, No- 
vember, 1802, after liberal approbation 
and applaufe beitowed on tho/e perfons 
through whofe diligence and ability the 
fuccelsful introduction of Dr. Jennet’s 
diicovery at the prefidency of Bengal, 
was promoted, ordered, that a * notifis 
cation fhould be prepared and publithed 
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in the Perfian, Hindevy, Bengalefe, and. 
Shan{crit languages, giving 
1. A fuccinét hiftory of the ditco. 
very, in which the curious, and to the 
Hindoos very intereiting, circumitance, 
that this wonderful preventive was ori- 
ginally procured from the bodyef the cow, 
fhould be emphatically remarked. 
2. An explanation of the important 
and effential advantages which vaccination 
pofleiies over the imall-pox inoculation, 
and, | 
Laftly,an earneft exhortation to the natives 
of theie provinces to jofe no time mavailing 
themielves of this inetlimable benefit, 
{carcely inferior to any that was ever com. 
municated by one nation to another.” 
The propriety of emphatically rvemark- 
ing the fource trom whence the preven- 
tive alluded to was derived, wiil appear 
maniteft at once, wnen we reflect on the 
prejudices of the Hindoos, and we believe 
of the Perfians too, in tavour af the cow, 
For a more particular account of the 
fteps by which vaccine inoculation has 
been eftablithed in India we mutt refer to 
the eotlections publithed by Dr. Keir. Sufk 
fice it to fay that the inhabitaats of that 
country of all ranks, delcriptions, and re- 
lizions, place the utmott confidence in its 
eficacy. It may be neceffary, however, 
to add, that the vaccine inoculation is 
found to poffefs, throughout India, the 
fame wonderful powers in fhielding the 
human conititution from the {mall-poxy 
that it doesin Europe. 
Dr. Keir, having traced, from authen- 
tic documents, the introduction of the 
cow-pox into India, defcribes the difeafe, 
as it has appeared to the medical board. 
at Bombay in its various ftages, the fymp- 
toms attending its progrefs, and the 
means of diftinguifhing the true ,difeafe 
from the fpurious. 
This collection is very properly con~ 
cluded with an extra&t from a letter dated 
March 23d, from the governor of Bom. 
bay, which dees Mr. Duncan great ho- 
nour, in aniwer toa letter from the pre- 
fident at Bagdad, dated 7th November, 
1802. ‘It affords, (fays the guvernor,)a 
very comfortable reflection, that we have 
seen at laft able, through your aflivance, 
and that of Lord Elgin, to propagate 
the vaccine difeafe throughout India, 
as well as experimentally to afcertain, 
that it is of the very beit kind, and 
perfectly fecures thofe who have had 
it.from the imall-pox; by which toe lives 
of millions, yet unborn, may, and muft, 
ladeed, 
