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Books that may be helpful:
Books that may be helpful:
*''An Alphabetical List of the Medical Officers of the Indian Army 1764-1838'' by Edward Dodwell and James S. Miles (1839)
*''An Alphabetical List of the Medical Officers of the Indian Army 1764-1838'' by Edward Dodwell and James S. Miles (1839)
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Military_reading_list ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D.G. Crawford''] Review in  FIBIS Military Reading List.
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Military_reading_list ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930''] by D.G. Crawford. Review in  FIBIS Military Reading List.


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 23:25, 21 January 2010

A doctor may also be known as a Surgeon or (prior to 1873) an Assistant Surgeon.

Recommended reading

Books that may be helpful:

External links

For appointment procedures, refer to the Individuals section below and George Aldred

Individuals

  • Diseases of India by Sir James Annesley, 3rd edition, commences with details of his career as a Military Surgeon in the Madras Presidency from 1800 until he retired in 1838, after five years on the Medical Board. Google Books
  • Narrative of the Campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9 by Richard Hartley Kennedy M.D. Chief of the Medical Staff of the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus. 1840 Volume 1 Volume 2
  • Medical Advice to the Indian Stranger by John McCosh M.D. published 1841 Google Books. This link gives details of his photographic work and Army career.He retired in 1856.
  • The history of the Sikhs: containing the lives of the Gooroos; the history of the independent Sirdars, or Missuls, and the life of the great founder of the Sikh monarchy, Maharajah Runjeet Singh by William Lewis M’Gregor MD Surgeon 1st European Light Infantry 1846 Google Books Volume 1; Volume 2 contains details of the battles.
  • Obituary of Surgeon Major Allan Webb, died 15 September 1863 age 55 who entered the Bengal Medical Service in 1835. A second obituary. For many years from 1842, in addition to his other positions, he was surgeon to the Lower Orphan School, Calcutta probably until his retirement, or close to it.
  • Abstract of an article about Frederic John Mouat Bengal Surgeon, a leading figure in the field of education and prison reform, ca 1840-1870
  • George Edward Aldred was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service on the 20th of April 1847.This link from The Asplin Military History Resources shows the appointment procedures. He was Court Martialled in July 1848 and dismissed, as this link from Allen’s Indian Mail 1848 shows, but subsequently reinstated.
  • Autobiography of an Indian Army Surgeon: Or, Leaves Turned Down from a Journal by Wilmington Walford M.D. published 1854 Google Books
  • Page 12 of this pdf link gives details of Francis Day who joined the Madras Medical Service in 1852. He wrote a 1863 book on Cochin Google Books. He became the most important writer on Indian fishes, his first book on fish being Fishes of Malabar 1865. Archive.org Wikipedia
  • Lists the Medical Officers of the Bengal Medical Service who died during the Mutiny Google Books
  • Obituary of Assistant-Surgeon W. J. Thomson, Civil Surgeon of Gurgaon (near Delhi),who died 1863.He had “an early death” and appears to have joined the Bengal Medical Service after 1858.
  • Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889) -modern treatment for cholera, introduced cannabis to Western medicine, laid first telegraph system in Asia.
    Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India by M Adams 1889 Archive.org
  • Laura and Charles Hope were Baptist medical missionaries from Australia, for most of the period 1893 to 1934 Australian DIctionary of Biography