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Report on the working of the Contagious Diseases Act in Calcutta during the year 1874
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pp 351-67. The Calcutta Commissioner of Police forwards copy Annual Report by the Superintendent of Lock Hospitals regarding the working of the Act in Calcutta. Plus resolution thereon by the Government of Bengal.
Report on the physiological effects of the poisons of the Naja Trupudians and the Daboia Russellii
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Report by Surgeon A J Wall, member of the Snake Commission, recounting in detail a snake-bite incident described in the Indian Medical Gazette (Oct 1873), and 39 experiments upon animals conducted to ascertain the effects of cobra and daboia poison upon the nervous sytem; respiration; circulatio...
Reports on the experiments made with the Cinchona Febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee and the Quinetum Alkaloid and Quinetum Sulphate
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pp 385-445. Correspondence regarding the work of Government Quinologist C H Wood, and the trials of his cinchona febrifuge, discussing the efficacy of the treatment when compared with other cinchona alkaloids, the economic rationale for production and distribution, production statistics, and the...
Conduct of Surgeon Major C E W Bensley, and his compounding and sale of febrifuge
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pp 7-15. Correspondence regarding the actions of Surgeon Major C E W Bensley, Civil Surgeon in the district of Nuddea. Bensley purchased cinchona alkaloid at wholesale price, established a compounding establishment, and sold his compound under his own name for a profit. The correspondence include...