INOCULATION IN INDIA
In India, the disease of Small Pox had been prevalent through the ages. There was a regular system, whereby physician would go around inoculating ppl with cow pox, which they called as “Govasoori”. This has been recorded by early British officers in India.
In India, the disease of Small Pox had been prevalent through the ages. There was a regular system, whereby physician would go around inoculating ppl with cow pox, which they called as “Govasoori”. This has been recorded by early British officers in India.
Dr.John Zephaniah Holwell, Fellow of the Royal Society, was a surgeon and an employee of the English East India Company serving as a temporary Governor of Bengal. He was also one among the first few Europeans to study Indian antiquities.
Dr.J.Z.Holwell studied the Indian inoculation system of Bengal in 1760 and lectured in the London Royal College of Physician in 1767 about the “antiquity of Inoculation in India.”
Commenting on the effectiveness of the Indian system of routine inoculation, he writes in 1767,
This goes to show how the Indian ancestors not only had preventives and cures for certain diseases regarded dreadful even by today’s standard, but had also evolved schemes whereby in a manner systematic, they had kept at bay, such epidemics.
In 1731, Ro.Coult in his record, “An Account of the Diseases of Bengal” dated 10th February 1731, mentions how the physician, Dunantry of Champanagar, by the Ganges, gave inoculation, Tikah as known locally.
He writes about the method followed by a Dunantary, physician of Champanagar, by the Ganges. Dunantary is his way of writing Dhanvantari, the local terminology for a physician, as the divinity for Ayurveda is called Dhanvantari.
Ro.Coult writes about the steps as.
Ro.Coult writes about the steps as.
