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Before Vaccines Had a Name, India Was Already Preventing Smallpox
In 1767, a British surgeon sat down and wrote a detailed letter to London's Royal College of Physicians describing a practice he'd watched Indian practitioners perform for generations. That letter still exists. Here's what it actually says.
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In 1767, a British surgeon sat down and wrote a detailed letter to London's Royal College of Physicians describing a practice he'd watched Indian practitioners perform for generations. That letter still exists. Here's what it actually says.
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Smallpox in the modern scientific and colonial contexts 1721–1840
Journal of Biosciences / Springer Nature
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A brief history of vaccines & vaccination in India
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An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies
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