Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c15.4
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c15.4
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c15.4
The operation of inoculation called by the natives *tikah* has been known in the kingdom of Bengall as near as I can learn, about 150 years and according to the Bhamanian records was first performed by one Dununtary, a physician of Champanager, a small town by the side of the Ganges about half way to Cossimbazar whose memory is now holden in great esteem as being thought the author of this operation, which secret, say they, he had immediately of God in a dream.