Resolution on vaccination in the Lower Provinces of Bengal
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Resolution of R L Mangles, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, regarding the report by the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, on vaccination during the year 1875-76. Discusses the vaccination statistics and operation of the circle establishments throughout Bengal; Lieutenant-Governo...
Resolution regarding the Annual Report on the Insane Asylums of Bengal for 1875
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Resolution of R L Mangles, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Comments on the steep rise of admissions and re-admissions, and discusses means of reducing the intake. Contains statistics.
pp 691-957. Reports from hospitals, jails and dispensaries across the Presidencies regarding the trial of Surgeon Major J Dougall's method for treating leprosy with gurjun oil. The reports are high in detail, consisting of case histories for named patients, describing the progression of the dis...
Translation of a letter from Arthur Koscicky to the Minister for Indian Affairs, recommending the use of rattlesnake gall as an antidote to rattlesnake poison. Note by Sir J Fayrer recommending that the letter be forwarded to the Snake Poison Committee.
Letter by Surgeon-General C R Francis, Indian Army (Retired), on the effectiveness of quinine, either swallowed or introduced hypodermically, in the treatment of insolation or sunstroke. With note by Sir J Fayrer.
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...
Correspondence and reports regarding certain preparations of cinchona febrifuge other than quinine which have been tried in India
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pp 13-347. Memo from J F Beatson, Surgeon General Indian Medical Department to the Home Department, Government of India, enclosing reports received from Army and Indian Medical Department officers throughout the Bengal Presidency on experiments with mixed cinchona alkaloids - cinchonidine and th...
Trial in the Mayo Hospital in Calcutta of the medicine suggested by Dr Robert L Bowles as a specific for cholera
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Correspondence regarding a recent Mayo Hosptial trial of acidum sulphurosum as a treatment for cholera, proposed by Dr Robert L Bowles. The practice of fumigation as a prophylactic measure is discussed.