Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.3
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c16.3
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c16.3
On perusing lately some tracts upon the subject of inoculation, I determined to put together a few notes relative to the manner of inoculation, practised, time out of mind by *the Bramins of Indostan*; to this I was chiefly instigated, by considering the great benefit that may arise to mankind from a knowledge of this foreign method, which so remarkably tends to support the practice now generally followed with such marvellous success.