Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c15.5
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c15.5
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c15.5
Their method of performing this operation is by taking a little of the pus (when the smallpox are come to maturity and are of a good kind) and dipping these in the point of a pretty large sharp needle. Therewith make severall punctures in the hollow under the deltoid muscle or sometimes in the forehead, after which they cover the part with a little paste made of boiled rice.