Remarks on the Annual Reports on Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries in India for the year 1909
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pp 1143-53. Remarks on the annual reports on civil hospitals and dispensaries in the North-West Frontier Province; the United Provinces; the Punjab; and Bombay.
Notes by the Chemical Examiner and Bacteriologist, United Provinces and Central Provinces, on the methods for the permanganate test as applied to cocaine and certain cocaine substitutes
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pp 1235-43. Copy of Dr E H Hankin, The permanganate test as applied to cocaine and certain cocaine substitutes, plus correspondence thereon.
Publication of correspondence regarding the restriction of the growth of the Indian Medical Service and the employment of medical practitioners
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pp 861-84. Communications between the Secretary of State and the Viceroy regarding the need to publish previous correspondence regarding the promotion of an independent medical profession in India, and the need to edit correspondence prior to publication in order to offend those practicing "indig...
(2969-73) Letter from James Anderson to Government of Madras, 20 Oct 1789, quoting Hugh Hunter’s account of cochineal insects transported from Barbados to Bristol in 1760 by being attached to living plants. Requests that Court of Directors in London be informed of this method of transportation. ...
Madras Medical Board submit letter from Abbé Jean Antoine Dubois [of the Catholic Mission] regarding his work introducing vaccination to Mysore, and requesting the support of the local administration in furthering vaccination. Additional letter in support from William Horsman. Order that the cor...
pp 525-30. Report by H E Jacomb, Acting Municipal Commissioner at Bombay, plus comments by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding sewage at Bombay, sanitary policy, and the instigation of a sewer system.
Observations on the progress of cholera at Jessore and Allahabad during 1817-18
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Assistant Surgeon Tytler's observations on the progress of the dreadful disease which prevailed at Jessore and Allahabad during the years 1817 and 1818.
Proposal for lectures on chemistry and materia medica for students at the Hindu College
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Superintendent of the new medical college proposes that provision be made for lectures on chemistry and materia medica for students of the Hindu College. O'Shaughnessy's proposed plan of medical instruction.
Papers on the subject of bowstring flax, and the Hindu method of making sugar
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Madras Public Consultations, May 1794: [pp 1435-1437] Letter from Dr William Roxburgh to Robert Clerk, Civil Secretary, Fort St George, dated Samulcotah [Samalkota] 1st February 1793, on the subject of East Indian bowstring flax, and enclosing the following papers. [pp 1437-1461] An account ...