Annual report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1879-80
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Containing: Eighteenth Annual Report and Returns of the Government Cinchona Plantations in British Sikkim by Surgeon Major George King; Report of the Quinologist for 1879-80; Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the above.
Comment on the reports of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for 1879-80
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p 443. Letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General regarding Dr King's recommendations following his visit to Java, the proposal to encourage private enterprise in cinchona cultivation in new localities, and his preference for Government to extend current plantations rath...
Reports of medical officers on the suitability of the cinchona febrifuge and cinchona alkaloids, and on the value of sulphate of quinetum and hydrochlorate of quinetum as a febrifuge
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pp 375-436. Reports contain detailed case studies for named patients, alongside tabulated data and Surgeon's comments on the various treatments.
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.
Enquiry into the nature and pathology of the Delhi Sore
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pp 129-31. Correspondence regarding the apparent decrease in occurrence of the Delhi Sore, and the deputation of Drs Lewis and Cunningham to investigate. Plus copy memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the subject of the Delhi and Sind Sores.
Report on the 1876 cholera outbreak at Peshawar District
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pp 967-69. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on a report on cholera in the Peshawar District during 1876, by Lieutenant A F Barrow, Officiating Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Peshawar District.