Dr Beauperthey's treatment of leprosy with cashewnut oil
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pp 215-249 Reports on the trials of Dr Beauperthey's cashewnut oil treatment regimen for leprosy, conducted across various medical institutions: the Madras Leper Hospital, Calcutta Leper Asylum, Jail Leper Hosptial Burdwan, Taran Taran Leper Asylum, Bulrampur Hospital, and Rangoon Jail Hospital...
Report on the remedy proposed by Dr Declat, of Paris, for the bite of poisonous snakes
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p 411-14. Report by Dr A J Wall, of the Snake Poison Commission, on Dr Declat's proposal to treat snake bites wth carbolic or phenic acid in the form of a "phenate d'ammoniaque". The appendix details seven experiments with carbolic acid, testing the remedy on dogs injected with cobra venom.
Supply of Hospital Assistants for the Civil Department
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pp 967-1259. Correspondence regarding the supply of hospital assistants to the Civil Department. Includes statistics on the distribtion of staff throughout the establishment; comments on examinations and educational requirements; details of syllabuses and the composition of lectures; and discuss...
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...
A specific for diarrhoea, dysentery, spasmodic pains of the bowels, and asiatic cholera; and the use of coal or carbon as articles of animal nutrition
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pp 1421-27. Letters from Professor H W Adams of Philidelphia: (1) Provides details of a specific for the cure of diarrhoea, dysentery, spasmodic pains of the bowels and asiatic cholera, with instructions for treatment. (2) Describes his experiments with using coal and carbon as a source of fo...
Correspondence forwarded to the Snake Poison Commission regarding Albemarl Bettington's investigations into the poison of the foorsa [echis carinatus, or saw-scaled viper].