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Paper, 'Of the manner of inoculation practised on the coast of Barbary and in Bengal' by Chais

Reference number: L&P/5/23

Date: 1768

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A short account of the manner of inoculating the small pox, on the coast of Barbary, and at Bengal, in the East Indies, extracted from a memoir written in Dutch, by the Reverend Mr. Chais, at the Hague: by M. Maty, M. D. S. R. S'

Read 14 April 1768

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L&P/5/23
Earliest possible date
1768
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Paper, 'Of the manner of inoculation practised on the coast of Barbary and in Bengal' by Chais, 1768, L&P/5/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_23/paper-of-the-manner-of-inoculation-practised-on-the-coast-of-barbary-and-in-bengal-by-chais, accessed on 07 June 2026

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