Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.16
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.16
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c16.16
When the Bramins begin to inoculate, they pass from house to house and operate at the door, refusing to inoculate any who have not, on a strict scrutiny, duly observed the preparatory course enjoined them. It is no uncommon thing for them to ask the parents how many pocks they choose their children should have: Vanity, we should think, urged a question on a matter seemingly so uncertain in the issue; but true it is, that they hardly ever exceed, or are deficient, in the number required.