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Experiments made by Major E R Röst [Rost], IMS, in the treatment of leprosy at the Kemmendine Asylum
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pp 43-45. Government of Burma forward letters from Rost [given here as Röst] and Colonel W G King, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Burma, regarding the experiments. Röst claims to have complied with Government orders to cease experiments with leprolin, and claims that the new treatment be...
Overcrowding of the S. S. Jeddah carrying pilgrims from Singapore and arriving at Aden
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pp 47-55. Copy correspondence between the Governments of Bombay and India, and the Political Resident and Port Officer at Aden, regarding the apparent overcrowding of the Jeddah; issued a certificate at Singapore for 1,000 passengers, but assessed at Aden as only being licensed to carry 600. In...
Annual Reports on the working of Medical Schools in Bengal for the year 1909-1910
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pp 1005-51. Annual reports for the Campbell Medical School, Calcutta; the Orissa Medical School, Cuttack; and the Patna Temple Medical School. Plus remarks of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal.
Comments of J M Cuningham on the cholera outbreak at Delhi during the end of 1871
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p 07. Cuningham comments on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, highlights the outbreaks at Dinapore, Benares and Lucknow, and cautions against drawing conclusions before the annual cholera statistics have been collated and examined.
G A White's recommendation of the teel [til] plant as a cure for dysentry
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Concerning G A White's recommendation of Sesamum Orientale [Sesamum Indicum] - the common teel [til] plant - as a cure for dysentery. Contains details of trials at the Mayo Native Hospital Calcutta and Calcutta Medical College; case descriptions; and comparisons with other treatments.
Memoranda on the Proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran] plus related correspondence
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pp 421-23. Précis of proceedings by J Dickson, Physician to Her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Persia, plus copy telegrams from the Minister and Resident at Teheran.
Manufacture in England of Quinine from bark sent from the Government Cinchona Plantations on the Nilgiris
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Despatch regarding the manufacture in England of products using cinchona bark from India: Cinchonidine, Quinidine, Cinchona alkaloid, Liquor of amorphous sulphate, Quinetum alkaloids, soluble tartrates and Quinoidine. Two reports are enclosed: F C D, Utilization of Government Cinchona Bark from ...
Regarding proposals to hire a Government Quinologist and establish a factory for quinine production at Mungpoo
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pp 115-17. Letters regarding the proposal to procure the services of C H Wood as Quinologist for the cinchona plantation at British Sikkim, and the possibility of adding a factory at Mungpoo to manufacture quinine and the febrifuge by Mr Gammie's new method. Includes letters from G King to the ...