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*[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://archive.org/stream/annualreportonw00oudhgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''Fourth Annual report on the working of the lock-hospitals in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh for the year 1877''] 1878 Archive.org
*''The Queen's Daughters in India'' by Elizabeth W. Andrew and Katharine C. Bushnell 1899. Investigation and Report by two American missionaries into the government sanctioned brothels in British Army cantonments. [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:6-uExL5PKGwJ:godswordtowomen.org/queensdaughters.pdf+The+Queen's+Daughters+in+India%5D+by+Elizabeth+W.+Andrew+and+Katharine+C.+Bushnell&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShPbE6SN6YMqINh2UpPN22obBlMpC-F25pXQNP6hXdKXbrlt9sNHKd35YNlsNWtk2Qp3dPOiuahzk5_M6ExwD0T__EDRYdAmhqsJZqT6Iuholr8GJsTdfQFdCBIy5hWNpxhnvHL&sig=AHIEtbR6kxCKSY6bANlzwxJh21qZofQJ_w html version], [http://godswordtowomen.org/queensdaughters.pdf original pdf] godswordtowomen.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/asiaticorbengalc00pete#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Asiatic or Bengal Cholera of 1867 to 1873''] by John C. Peters. 1874. Reprinted from Volume 1, Public Health Papers of American Public Health Association. Archive.org
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