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].
Result of the experiments made with the alleged remedy for snake-bite supplied by the King of Siam
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Contains a report by Surgeon A J Wall, member of the Snake Poison Commission, detailing the experiments with "two small pieces of a root of a tree with a slightly aromatic odour".
Correspondence regarding the appearance of mahamari plague at Kumaon and Garhwal. Contains descriptions of the symptoms of the disease; its progress through the region; measures in place to check the spread of the disease; advice given to the native inhabitants; and the possibility of deputising ...