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Report on the experiments made with Dr Deycke's Nastine [Nastin] treatment of leprosy in Leper Asylums at Gobra and Purulia
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pp 831-950. Copy Report on Experiments with Nastin B in Leprosy by Major Samuel Anderson and Major Leonard Rogers, with notes by Colonel G F A Harris. Report features detailed case studies for named patients, and includes: Illustrations, pp 851-73; and pp 901-09. Charts showing temperature, puls...
Report on the Treatment of Leprosy by Gurjun Oil by Surgeon Major J Dougall
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Copy of J Dougall, Report on the Treatment of Leprosy with Gurjun Oil, plus order thereon from the Government of India, that local trials should be conducted throughout India.
Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Bannerman regarding the possible introduction of sleeping sickness into India
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pp 1317-23. Copy of Bannerman's report and its recommendations are forwarded to Presidency Governments in India and Port Health Officers. Resolution that the Portuguese Government should be informed of the actions taken in Bombay ports, and asked whether similar action might be taken at Marmagao.
Results of experiments made in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 41-43. Diagram recording the water level in the well at Omrawuttee during the month of November 1870 [shown as a representation of Pettenkofer's apparatus], plus tables recording meteorological observations, and notes on incidences of fevers and cholera.
Results of experiments made in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts to test Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 97-98. Diagram recording the water level in the well at Omrawuttee during the month of December 1870 [shown as a representation of Pettenkofer's apparatus], plus tables recording meteorological observations, and notes on incidences of fevers and cholera.
Form of return for results of experiments conducted regarding Pettenkofer's theory on the origin and propagation of cholera
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p 101. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India comments on the returns sent by the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, and remarks that the returns were received in the form of a diagram, and not the prescribed register.