Selection of a Government Quinologist, plus reports on the production of cinchona alkaloids
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pp 283-307. Correspondence and memoranda regarding the selection of a successor to C H Wood as Government Quinologist, and concerning: the production of the "triple" and cinchona febrifuges; the desirability of manufacturing pure alkaloids from succirubra bark, and the establishment of a small fa...
Outbreaks of scurvy on board ships sailing form the ports of Bassein and Rangoon
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p 923. Communications received from the Board of Trade and Secretary of State, expressing concerns that bad water obtained at ports is causing the disease.
Correspondence regarding the deportation of Insane Asylum patients from India to the United Kingdom
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pp 135-87. Includes copy of the Supplementary Instructions to Officers in the British Possessions Abroad plus appendices, including appendix (f), Scale of Medicines and Medical Stores issued and caused to be published by the Board of Trade in pursuace of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1867.
Report on the government cinchona plantations and factory in Bengal for the year 1887-1888
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pp 07-19. Report by J A Gammie Esq., Acting Superintendent of cinchona cultivation in Bengal, and Government Quinologist; plus resolution thereon by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
Reports showing the results of the experiments made with the Vagus treatment of cholera
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pp 265-86. Despatch to the Secretary of State, forwarding replies from Local Governments and Administrations reporting the results of experiments made with the Vagus Treatment of Cholera [applying liquor lyttae], advocated by Dr A Harkin of Belfast. Includes details of the experiments and case st...