Proposed deputation of a European Medical Officer to assist Dr Lingard in investigating the nature of the disease known in the Himalayas as Mahamari
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pp 717-19. Communication from the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, forwarding a letter from Professor Robert Koch to Sir Anthony MacDonnell, recommending that an investigation be carried out to determine whether the disease known as mahamari is in fact bubonic plague, through b...
Dr Mueller's method of treating snake-bite by injection of strychnine: response to criticism
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pp 535-36. Secretary of State for India forwards a letter from Dr A Mueller, criticising the reports submitted by members of the Indian Medical Service on the trial of his strychnine treatment, claiming that results obtained on animals and humans cannot be conflated.
Preservative medicine (common salt) to be used in packing viscera in certain cases
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pp 337-47. Memorandum on the use of a saturated solution of common salt as a preservative for viscera sent for chemical examination, by Assistant Surgeon Chuni Lal Bose, Additional Chemical Examiner to the Government of Bengal; plus related correspondence and orders thereon from the Government of...
Proposal to place Surgeon Major Ronald Ross on special duty to investigate the truth of Dr Patrick Manson's theory of the transmission of the infection of malaria by means of the mosquito
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pp 259-63. Communication from the Government of Madras, forwarding copy letter from Ross requesting to be placed on special duty, plus orders thereon from the Government of India.