XVII. 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

Having long thought that the Arabs, who, about the middle of the sixth century, were the first who wrote upon the small-pox, were likewise the first inventors of the method to prevent the fatal consequences of that cruel disorder, I was very desirous to get what informations I could concerning the introduction of inoculation in Africa, and in the East Indies.