UK Council of Medical Education seek comments from Indian medical authorities upon the Indian Addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia of 1898
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pp 371-405. Secretary of State circulates copy letter from the General Medical Council requesting comments, plus enclosed copy of the General Medical Council 'Report from the Pharmacopoeia Committee on the proposed Indian and colonial addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia of 1898, with suggestion...
Prevalence of Jigger-flea [Tunga] in Africa, and suggestions for the treatment of, and precautions against, this pest
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pp 261-73. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding reports received from Mozambique, the Somali Coast Protectorate, Beira, and Zanzibar regarding the Jigger-flea [Tunga or pulex penetrans].
Proposal to prepare a list of medical practitioners residing in Bengal who are possessed of genuine medical qualifications in the European system of medicine
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pp 71-87. Government of Bengal forward details of the proposal, plus a sample list of names.
Remarks on the Lunatic Asylums Reports for the year 1898; discussion of the confinement of patients in solitary cells in the asylum at Agra
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pp 187-237. Remarks and resolutions of the various Presidency and Provincial Governments on the annual reports for asylums within their jurisdiction; plus note by the Director General, Indian Medical Service, on the working of Indian asylums for the year 1898.
Translation of a letter from Arthur Koscicky to the Minister for Indian Affairs, recommending the use of rattlesnake gall as an antidote to rattlesnake poison. Note by Sir J Fayrer recommending that the letter be forwarded to the Snake Poison Committee.
Letter by Surgeon-General C R Francis, Indian Army (Retired), on the effectiveness of quinine, either swallowed or introduced hypodermically, in the treatment of insolation or sunstroke. With note by Sir J Fayrer.
Prevalence of cholera in the Chudderghât Bazaar, and the measures adopted to check its progress
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pp 555-61. Reports forwarded by Captain W Tweedie, Officiating First Assistant Resident, Hyderabad, regarding the cholera outbreak and measures to check its progress, including graph charting the number of cholera cases and mortality [p 558].