G A White's recommendation of the teel [til] plant as a cure for dysentry
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Concerning G A White's recommendation of Sesamum Orientale [Sesamum Indicum] - the common teel [til] plant - as a cure for dysentery. Contains details of trials at the Mayo Native Hospital Calcutta and Calcutta Medical College; case descriptions; and comparisons with other treatments.
Memoranda on the Proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran] plus related correspondence
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pp 421-23. Précis of proceedings by J Dickson, Physician to Her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Persia, plus copy telegrams from the Minister and Resident at Teheran.
Manufacture in England of Quinine from bark sent from the Government Cinchona Plantations on the Nilgiris
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Despatch regarding the manufacture in England of products using cinchona bark from India: Cinchonidine, Quinidine, Cinchona alkaloid, Liquor of amorphous sulphate, Quinetum alkaloids, soluble tartrates and Quinoidine. Two reports are enclosed: F C D, Utilization of Government Cinchona Bark from ...
Regarding proposals to hire a Government Quinologist and establish a factory for quinine production at Mungpoo
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pp 115-17. Letters regarding the proposal to procure the services of C H Wood as Quinologist for the cinchona plantation at British Sikkim, and the possibility of adding a factory at Mungpoo to manufacture quinine and the febrifuge by Mr Gammie's new method. Includes letters from G King to the ...
Information regarding the price of the Indian cinchona febrifuge and its therapeutic power furnished to the Secretary of State for the Government of Jamaica
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pp 17-18. Despatch, forwarding a copy letter by Surgeon Major George King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal.
Inoculation of soldiers at Agra with the cholera virus; experiments conducted by Dr Waldemar Haffkine
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pp 367-73. Despatch to the Secretary of State forwarding answers to questions asked in the House of Commons concerning Waldemar Haffkine's scientific mission to India, and his trials in inoculating for cholera.
pp 419-29. Comprising: Communication from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent and Consul-General in Baghdad, reporting on the plague, quarantine, and the potential impact on the wool trade, and enclosing: Report by Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, on his investigation into pla...