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Volume 32, Number 10—October 2026
Historical Review
Variolation Techniques, Medical Explanations, and Dissemination in Late Imperial China
Table 1
Search strategy for variolation in India in study of variolation techniques, medical explanations, and dissemination in late Imperial China*
| Database | Search string |
|---|---|
| PubMed |
(Smallpox inoculation[Title/Abstract] OR Variolation[Title/Abstract] OR Smallpox vaccination[Title/Abstract]) AND (India[Title] OR Bengal[Title] OR South Asia[Title] OR Punjab[Title] OR Madras[Title] OR “East Indies”[Title]) |
| Internet archive | Mediatype:texts AND date:[1700–01–01 TO 1900–12–31] AND ((Inoculation OR Inoculating OR Variolation) AND (India OR “East Indies” OR Bengal OR Bengall OR Hindostan OR Hindoostan OR Calcutta OR Madras OR Punjab)) |
*PubMed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed; Internet archive, https://archive.org
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
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