The history, of inoculation. By M. De La Condamine, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France. ; Published April 24th, 1754

"THE artificial communication of the small-pox, an operation more generally known at present under the name of inoculation, has been practised time immemorial, in Circassia, Georgia, and the countries bordering upon the Caspian sea. Tho' unknown in the greatest part of Europe, it was in use in the principality of Wales in England. It was formerly known, and since neglected in Greece and Turky, and was not revived again at Constantinople till towards the end of the last century, when a Thessalian woman practised it there with great success; but this was only among the lower class of people. This custom is very ancient, and generally received in the island of Cephalonia, subject to the republic of Venice; it is common in the Morea, and the island of Candia. If we go out of Europe, we shall find it at Bengal, and so long practised on the coast, and in the interior of Africa, at Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, that its origin is unknown, but probably introduced in the time of the Arabs. In the beginning of the last century, the small-pox was communicated at China, without incision, but through the nose, by respiring the matter of some dried pustules reduced to powder. All these facts were buried in oblivion, till Emanuel Timone, a Greek physician, and member of the universities of Padua and Oxford, having undertaken to bring inoculation into some vague, gave an ample discription of it in a letter to Dr. Woodward, written from Constantinople in the month of December, 1713. During..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.