Engagement of ten doctors for temporary plague duty in India
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pp 1403-19. Correspondence, plus details of the ten doctors [name, qualifications, posting]; extract of an article published in The Lancet of 27 May 1899, critical of the treatment of those on temporary plague duty; plus copy [blank] Memorandum of Agreement form.
pp 2235-38. Report Mode of Treatment of the Jigger [translation from the German] by Dr Beeper [also given as Becker], Principal Medical Officer to the Imperial Troops in German East Africa.
Financial proposals connected with the Bombay Plague Laboratory
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pp 2093-2114. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bombay, and Waldemar Haffkine, regarding staffing of the Plague Laboratory, operating costs, and the move from the Khushru Lodge to Government House, Parel.
Reports on the experiments carried on by the Superintendent of the Zoological Garden, Calcutta, and Captain R H Elliot, Indian Medical Service, in connection with antidotes against snake poison
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pp 2033-43. Reports received from Rambramha Sanyal and R H Elliot regarding experiments on attempted immunization against snake venom, and the use of strychnine; plus correspondence thereon.
Proposed Indian addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia of 1898
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pp 2053-67. Communication from the Honorary Secretary, Central Indigenous Drugs Committee, conveying the remarks of the Committee on the proposed Indian Addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia of 1898.
pp 687-91. Letters received from the Zomba Residency and British Central Africa Administration regarding the spread of the Jigger-flea [Tunga or pulex penetrans].