Enquiry into the nature and pathology of the Delhi Sore
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pp 129-31. Correspondence regarding the apparent decrease in occurrence of the Delhi Sore, and the deputation of Drs Lewis and Cunningham to investigate. Plus copy memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the subject of the Delhi and Sind Sores.
Report on the 1876 cholera outbreak at Peshawar District
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pp 967-69. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on a report on cholera in the Peshawar District during 1876, by Lieutenant A F Barrow, Officiating Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Peshawar District.
Annual report of the Agra Medical School for 1877-78
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pp 319-49. Report of the Medical school, providing details of pupils, examination results, the syllabus, and school behaviour. The report is preceeded by correspondence regarding school discipline and the suicide of a pupil.
Dr George King's report on the Java Cinchona Plantation
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pp 9-16. Report of George King, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, on his visit to inspect Dutch cinchona plantations in Java, and investigations into the cultivation of cinchona calisaya; letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal, regarding guidance for the I...
Report on the working of the Contagious Diseases Act in Calcutta during the year 1874
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pp 351-67. The Calcutta Commissioner of Police forwards copy Annual Report by the Superintendent of Lock Hospitals regarding the working of the Act in Calcutta. Plus resolution thereon by the Government of Bengal.
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...