The Indian Journal of Education. A Monthly Review April 1898

The educational industrial and social condition of the masses of the people the condition of our vernacular languages and literature and the position and prospects of those who are well-learned in that literatures its traditions and its thoughts and the languages in which they are clothed —all these are so completely and inetricably intermingled that our decision in regard to the one and the [...] Medical science of the day is not the product of a single nation but represents the outcome of labour and thought through long ages of nations throughout the world ; and despises not theories of the most ancient origin or facts that will brook investigation founded upon the experience of the uncultured medicine man of Central Africa or the empiricism of the squaw of Kamaschatka. [...] The following is the text I allude to :—" Take the fluid of the pock on the udder of a cow or on"236 the arm between the shoulder and elbow of a human subject on the point of a lancet and lance with it the arms between the shoulders and elbow until the blood appears ; then mixing the fluid with the blood the fever of the smalpox will be produced. [...] But it takes little knowledge of the condition of the country to know that the majority must aspire to be members of the public services —necessarily involving the fulfilment in the majority of cases of stereotyped duties from one year's end to the other. [...] The inhabitants of the benighted Presidency have I think good cause to look askance at the action of the uneducated sections of the Bombay Presidency who have made the sensible laws of the ancient system of hygiene an excuse for ignoring the dictates of its modern prototype and thus have permitted the spread of plague to an extent that has seriously crippled their own commerce and brought this