Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.20
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.20
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c16.20
When the before recited treatment of the inoculated is strictly followed, it is next to a miracle to hear, that one in a million fails of receiving the infection, or of one that miscarries under it; of the multitudes I have seen inoculated in that country, the number of pustules have been seldom less than fifty, and hardly ever exceeded two hundred. Since, therefore, this practice of the East has been followed without variation, and with uniform success from the remotest known times, it is but justice to conclude, it must have been originally founded on the basis of rational principles and experiment.