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Extension of the Lock Hospital Rules within a radius of half a mile round the rifle range at Haraura near Benares
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pp 141-53. Reports and correspondence. Includes fold-out map at p. 151, compiled from the District Map prepared by the Divisional Engineers Office and Surveyor General's Map of Cantonment Lines and City, 1869, and showing the Cantonment boundary, the Lock Hospital area, and the proposed extension.
Report by Captain T S B Williams on the Nastin treatment of leprosy carried on at the Acworth Leper Asylum, Matunga, Bombay
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pp 1027-73. Copy Report: Part I, Work of Deycke and Reschad Bey. Part II, the Matunga Asylum Trial of the Nastin Treatment. Contains detailed case study information for named patients. Plus correspondence thereon.
Analysis of potable waters in the Madras and Bengal Presidencies
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pp 189-217. Army Sanitary Commission memorandums on the reports on water analysis in the Madras and Bengal Presidencies; plus correspondence thereon, including comments by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, and G S Beatson, Principal Medical Officer of the British ...
pp 931-35. Forwarded communication by a Dr A Mueller, informing the Government of India of his method for treating snake bite with subcutaneous injects of Strychnine.
Dr Augustus Mueller's treatment of snake-bite with strychnine
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pp 41-47. Correspondence, including copies of Mueller's letters to the Government of India, and orders to the Presidency Governments to trial the treatment.
Transmission to the India Office for the use of the Government of Jamaica of copies of the Annual Reports of the Governments of Madras and Bengal on the cultivation of Cinchona and the manufacture of the Febrifuge
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pp 487-91. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding copy letter from the Governor of Jamaica, with accompaniments.
Reports on the results of experiments made with a view to testing Dr Mueller's method of treating snake-bite by injections of strychnine
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pp 1019-1179. Detailed reports submitted by Medical Officers throughout India, on the trials of Dr Mueller's method of using strychnine to treat the victims of snake-bite. Reports contain detailed case studies for named patients. Plus copy of D D Cunningham, Report on the Results of Experiments...