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 ...
Correspondence and reports regarding certain preparations of cinchona febrifuge other than quinine which have been tried in India
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pp 13-347. Memo from J F Beatson, Surgeon General Indian Medical Department to the Home Department, Government of India, enclosing reports received from Army and Indian Medical Department officers throughout the Bengal Presidency on experiments with mixed cinchona alkaloids - cinchonidine and th...