Vaccination amongst the Chinese

Date:
1889
Reference:
MS.1465
Part of:
Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)
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Vaccination amongst the Chinese. A preliminary draft, and an expanded version: together with a revised text, with a new title: 'Smallpox, Inoculation and Vaccination in China.' Author's hologragh MSS. Hong Kong The longer version of the first draft is headed 'Information supplied to the Sanitary Board concerning the method in practice among the Chinese in Hong Kong (and presumably China generally) for the purpose of preventing smallpox (variola)'. It is stated that the 'Information was gathered from the Vaccinator at the Tung Wu Hospital'.

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1889

Physical description

5ff., 16 ff., II ff. 4to. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Presented 1931.

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Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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