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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=e2dhiIwJICAC&pg=PP7 ''Observations on Hepatic Diseases, Incidental to Europeans, in the East-Indies''] by Stephen Mathews, Surgeon 1783 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=e2dhiIwJICAC&pg=PP7 ''Observations on Hepatic Diseases, Incidental to Europeans, in the East-Indies''] by Stephen Mathews, Surgeon 1783 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?printsec=titlepage&id=ZCYUAAAAYAAJ “Report no.28:Reports on the Asylums for European and Native Insane Patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857”] from  ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal'' 1858 Google Book
*[http://books.google.com/books?printsec=titlepage&id=ZCYUAAAAYAAJ “Report no.28:Reports on the Asylums for European and Native Insane Patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857”] from  ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal'' 1858 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0z0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta''] by David Boyes Smith M.D., Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 1869 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/46/mode/2up  ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''], pages 46-52 by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org, describe a  cholera epidemic in the [[43rd Regiment of Foot]] in 1857 when 48 men, 6 women and  26 children died in a few days. [http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/36/mode/2up/search/apothecary Page 36] describes successful, but non conventional,  treatment for dysentery, c 1854-1855, the author was then in the [[96th Regiment of Foot]].
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/46/mode/2up  ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''], pages 46-52 by Isaac Tyrell (1904) Archive.org, describe a  cholera epidemic in the [[43rd Regiment of Foot]] in 1857 when 48 men, 6 women and  26 children died in a few days. [http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/36/mode/2up/search/apothecary Page 36] describes successful, but non conventional,  treatment for dysentery, c 1854-1855, the author was then in the [[96th Regiment of Foot]].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP3  ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports''] by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP3  ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports''] by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books

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Occupations

Occupations in the field of public health include:

See also, Indian Subordinate Medical Department

Records at the British Library

  • Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of health and disease including medical education. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

See also

External links

  • Medical History of British India, many Disease and Public Health reports, including military reports, from 19th and 20th century British India, from the National Library of Scotland, available online.
The Online Project is described in this 2009 link html version, original pdf[1]

Historical books online

References

  1. Usher, Jan (2009). "The Medical History of British India Online Project" from Positioning the Profession: the Tenth International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Brisbane, Australia, August 31-September 4, 2009.