Heil! Hindustan!!

[silver 2039]

Various doctors had experimented with innoculations
with mixed results in many countries for centuries.

It was that French man "Louis Pasteur" who really got
it started on a scientific basis with the rabies vaccine.

Wrong

http://www.indianscience.org/dyk/t_dy_Q14.shtml

Smallpox inoculation is an ancient Indian tradition and was practiced in India before the West.

Smallpox was not known to Hippocrates, and probably not to Galen or his successors either. The earliest Western references which seem to describe it are those of early medieval chroniclers. The turning point comes with the great physician and alchemist Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865 to ca.923 AD), whose Kitab al-jadari wa'l-hasba (On the variola and the measles) is still regarded rightly as a landmark in the history of medical literature. It gave the first clear account of these diseases and their differentiation in the Western world. But in China smallpox was accurately described several centuries earlier than in Islam. The key passage occurs in the Chou hou pei chi fang (Handy therapies for emergencies) finished by the great physician and alchemist Ko Hung about 340 AD, and revised by Thao Hung-ching (also a great physician and alchemist), in the around 500AD.

But as far as the inoculation is concerned, the earliest reference to smallpox inoculation is in the book Wan Chhuan on smallpox and measles, Tou chen hsin fa, first published in1549 AD and reprinted half a dozen times in the Chhing dynasty. The next step concerns the Chu family, who practised medicine through several generations. A book of Chu Shun-ku )ca. 1634 AD to1718 AD) entitled Tou chen ting hun (Definitive discussion of smallpox, 1713 AD) describes inoculation (Sivin 2000).

In ancient times in India smallpox was prevented through the tikah (inoculation). Kurt Pollak (1968) writes, "preventive inoculation against the smallpox, which was practiced in China from the 11th century, apparently came from India". This inoculation process was generally practiced in large part of Northern and Southern India, but around 1803-04 the British government banned this process. It's banning, undoubtedly, was done in the name of 'humanity', and justified by the Superintendent General of Vaccine (manufactured by Dr. E. Jenner from the cow for use in the inoculation against smallpox).

If you open the link and scroll further down it gives a detailed descrption of the innoculation process and has a British source.

 

[aneeshm]

This is rather embarrassing.

Why do all Indians who come to this board start out as near-rabid nationalists?

 

[aneeshm]

Why are you using the term Hindustan, anyway? Wasn't that originally an exonym by muslim conquerers?

We've co-opted it.

In some Middle Eastern language, "stan" means "land of", or something.

In Sanskrit, "sthan" means place.

So we've turned it into "HinduSthan".

Instant and near-painless Sanskritisation, and it adds a religio-cultural connotation, too. It's a favourite among nationalist Hindus.

 

[EdwardTking]

Wrong

http://www.indianscience.org/dyk/t_dy_Q14.shtml



If you open the link and scroll further down it gives a detailed descrption of the innoculation process and has a British source.

Very interesting.

But it had been known by physicians in many countries with cows
(ancient Greeks knew) that people who caught cowpox did not seem to catch smallpox; and there were all sorts of attempts to use that.
Some worked, some failed, some passed other diseases.

But nothing I typed was wrong. The rabies vaccine was decisive.
Prior to that rabies if caught was 100% fatal and there was no protection.

 

[aneeshm]

is anyone here fedup of the fact that know one knows india's great history, whenevr books or anything talks about india's history all they have to say is on the topic of british and christian as well as muslim invasions up to the poverty stricken wilderness it is today.Not a thing about its floushiring in the fields of math and science, the pythagores therom is attribted to pythagores when actually it was stolen from ancient indian texts, ' the firts university was in greece' , NO!! in HINDUSTAN!! not a wrod abotu its great texts in both spirituality and astronomy, such greatness if ever if spoken about is only praised to the ' invasion' of the Aryans. Aryans are from india, not the blone eyes big breasted german that the westeners seem to think they are. india's civilistion if much older than any other and was definitly much more advanced even when light shone on the anciet kingdoms of egypt and greece.
mathematics and science have their full roots in india.

Oh, and you may be interested in this little article I've written.

 

[skadistic]

I watched something on one of the cool channels about India's great mechanical contraptions and how they worked. Really a great programme.

 

[El_Machinae]

Now you all just have to get your economies developed before your aquifers start drying up.

 

[Rossiya]

All the sources the OP has used and the other Bengali person, are biased.

 

[LucyDuke]

the greeks and other civilisaiotn stole the zero concept form aryabhatta ad indian mathemitican

How did the Maya steal the zero concept?

Yeah, India's made some great contributions. But you're not going to get very far saying only India has made great contributions.