Treatment of snake-bite with Sir Lauder Brunton's lancet and permanganate of potash
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pp 195-98. Letters received from Sir Lauder Brunton, recommending that the Government of India procure large quantities of lancets to sell through the Post Offices at an affordable price. Encloses letters received in support of the treatment.
Report on further experiments made with Dr Deycke's Nastine [Nastin] treatment for leprosy
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pp 1111-21. Copy Report on result of experiments made with Dr Deycke's Nastine B. treatment in leprosy at the Palliport Leper Hospital, by 1st Grade Sub-Assistant Surgeon Anthony Fernandez [contains case studies]; plus comments thereon from the Civil Surgeon, Cochin.
Statistics of medical men and women in the service of the Government of India
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pp 713-24. Communications to be forwarded to the Secretary of State supplying statistics on the numbers of medical officers in India, and the proportion that hold qualifications recognised in the UK; with summary table on p 723.
Proposal to hold a scientific investigation into the nature, pathology, and causation of the fever prevailing in the Burdwan and Hooghly Districts
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Correspondence regarding the investigation proposed by the Government of Bengal. Includes an extract from and discussion of Nicholas Pike, "An American in Mauritius", Friend of India (1873) and his description of the role of microscopic and parasitic plants in the development of fevers.
Proposed establishment of a large central factory at Bombay for the manufacture of drugs and their supply to all hospitals and dispensaries not entirely maintained by the state
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pp 843-68. Correspondence regarding the proposal of Dr F N MacNamara, enclosing reports by Macnamara providing details of the drugs and chemicals purchased for stores in India for Feb-Mar 1889, with the price paid and market price; plus opinion of the Home Department, deprecating the adoption of ...