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Medical Board report on the relative merits of vaccination and inoculation
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Medical Board are of the opnion that smallpox inoculation should be discouraged; concurs with the Collector of Nellore that this might best be effected by the extension of the system of vaccination and in the mode suggested by him.
Medical board report on the relative merits of vaccination and inoculation
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Medical Board are of the opnion that smallpox inoculation should be discouraged; concurs with the Collector of Nellore that this might best be effected by the extension of the system of vaccination and in the mode suggested by him.
Memorandum by Dr J Murray on the stages of collapse in cholera
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pp 1083-85. Copy memorandum explaining Murray's division of cholera collapse into five stages: Death Agony; Intense; Severe; Mild or Reaction; Cholerine Incipient.
Wallich recommended for employment at the Calcutta Botanic Garden
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To H. [Henry St George] Tucker, Secretary to the Government, from W. [William] Roxburgh, recommending employment of Nathaniel Wallich, Surgeon to Danish settlement at Serampore, to Botanical Garden [Calcutta]. Botanical Garden, 1 Feb 1809. Governor General in Council decides in favour of said em...
No 26 Letter to G. A. Bushby, Secretary to the Government of Bengal General Department, from Wallich, 21 Dec [1840] covering letter for nos 27-31, which relate to plants despatched from and received into the Botanic Garden gives an overview of some issues relating to the Botanic Garden, coverin...
Report by William Griffith on the Calcutta Botanic Garden
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Includes: lists of desiderata of medical plants, extracted from Dr John Lindley's Flora Medica: a botanical account of all the more important plants used in medicine, in different parts of the world; plus lists of plants and seeds distributed from the botanic garden during 1843; list of "useful p...
Letter relaying Dr Gibson's trials of Sarsaparilla
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Document No. 5531: Letter dated 19 October 1847 from J. Scott, Secretary of the Medical Board, Bombay, to the Governor in Council informing him of the result of trials of Sarsaparilla [bramble] grown in India supplied by Surgeon Gibson and contrasting it with that grown in England. References R...