VACCINATION, the proem of inoculating with the virus frotn the pox of tho cow, in Latin vaccus. The tuttives of Indut usually desi,grutte it as Tika dalna, to affix the tilts, or Sitla nikalna, to remove the small-pox. The British Indian Government keep up great establishments to carry out vaccina tion, but it has not yet found general favour atnongst the natives. Masson says that the crunel in Baluchistan is liable to variola, and that the milkers who take this disease are exempt from small-pox attacks. Dr. Cullimore at Mandalay was informed by. intelligent natives that a second inoculation is occasionally necessary, and that there are some who, from the hereditary influence of the disease or some occult causes, are never susceptible to variolous inoculation. Dr. Hulllet, late of Pondicherry, undertakes to show that vaccination was known to a physician, Dhanwan tari, who flourished before Hippocrates.
VACCINIU1s1 LESCHENAULTII. Wight, Ic.
V. arboreum, Lesch. I Agapetes arborea, Andromeda symplocifolia, W. I Andoovan, .
A small or middling-sized very pretty tree, abundant on the Neilglaerries at the higher eleva tions, and on the Animallays, Pulneys, and Ceylon mountains. The fruit is about as large as currants. It is an agreeable acid, and makes good tarts. The wood is rose-coloured, with a red heart, wavy-grained, and pleasant to work, and would be excellent for cabinet-work. The Vacciniacem, or bilberry tribe of plants, are small trees or shrubs, of which about 13 species are known to occur in the south and east of Asia, in the Neilgherry and Khassya mountains, Tavoy, and Java, in the genera Vaccinium, Gaylussaccia, and Thibaudia.—Beddome, FL Sylv.