Regarding the Bengal Vaccination Report for 1878-79
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Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the [smallpox] vaccination report for Bengal, plus letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal regarding the Bengal vaccine establishment.
Use of calisaya bark from Sikkim, and the manufacture of alkaloids from the succirubra bark
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Letter from Fort William to the Secretary of State to India regarding the use of calisaya bark from Sikkim and the experiments with mixed alkaloids conducted by C H Wood, Government Quinologist. Enclosing a letter from Dr George King to the Government of Bengal regarding the same.
pp 153-235. Reports collated by provincial Indian Governments and Administrations, to determine: the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in each district; if localised, the locality in which it is chiefly found; the special peculiarities of such localities, if there are any; the spec...
Correspondence regarding the report on the Government cinchona plantation at British Sikkim for 1878
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pp 143-44. Correspondence regarding the satisfactory report, enclosing a letter from J Eliot Howard regarding the supply of raw materials to manufacture sulphate of quinine and Mr Wood's mixed cinchona alkaloids.
Trial of cinchona febrifuge in the Madras Presidency
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pp 75-79. Correspondence regarding trials of the cinchona febrifuge from Sikkim, and its possible substitution for 75 percent of the supply of quinine in Madras Presidency.
Report on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee
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pp 81-87. Compiled reports on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee in the Sikkim cinchona plantations, including statements comparing its effects on European and Native patients, and comments on the trial with the mixed alkaloids (quinine, cinchonine and cinchonidine).
Introduction of the cinchona febrifuge into the civil hospitals and dispensaries in the North-Western Provinces
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pp 103-06. Correspondence and abstracts of reports regarding the introduction of the cinchona febrifuge in the North-Western Presidencies, and comparing the efficacy of the febrifuge with quinine and other preparations.
Letters from Dr Henry MacCormac, advocating the use of dilute sulphuric acid as a prophylactic against cholera, and for the use of "earth closets" as a sanitary measure.
Proposal to issue a revised edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia in England
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pp 213-340. Correspondence and reports regarding the compilation of a revised Indian Pharmacopoeia to be published in England. Discusses the ongoing suitability of Waring's Pharmacopoeia (1868) and Mohideen Sheriff's supplement (1869). Several reports received providing detailed lists of Indian...
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 ...