Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 8222
An Attack of Smallpox
A book says one attack of smallpox generally protects for life; but second attacks are not uncommon.
Well, there are people who say that smallpox attacks immunise for only a few years.
But if it is as you say, then there are others, I suppose. There is X among the servants for instance who nearly died of smallpox. I myself had a slight attack in Baroda soon after I came from England – so you needn’t try to come up and vaccinate me.
13 April 1937