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Two histories of the Indian Medical Service, which also contain some biographical details are:
* ''A History of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1913'' (two volumes) by D. G. Crawford 1914. [https://archive.org/details/b21352148 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b21352148_0 Volume II] Archive.org. There are also additional files available on Archive.org.
*''Surgeons twoe and a Barber. Being some account of the life and work of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1947'' by Lieut.-Colonel Donald McDonald 1950. (This book appears in the British Library catalogue under the name MacDonald). More details about the book are contained in these reviews: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2068793/?page=1 Review 1] and [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2530269/?page=1 Review 2]
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Records are available on the pay website [[Findmypast|findmypast]] (as at June 2014) as the collection British India Office Assistant Surgeons, a section of the [http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findmypast.co.uk%2Farticles%2Fworld-records%2Fsearch-all-uk-records%2Fspecial-collections%2Fbritish-india-office-collection British India Office Collection].<ref name=BIIC/> Refer [[Doctor#Online records|Online records]] above.
A pdf document, now archived, by the Wellcome Library lists records in the British Library relating to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120906042136/http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtl039702.pdf medicine and health], including manuscripts.
''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. Refer
[[Research guides reading list]] for more details of this book.
===Online histories===
Three histories, the first quite short, of the Indian Medical Service, which also contain some biographical details are:
*[https://archive.org/details/b2265110x/page/n2/mode/2up ''Indian Medical Service Past and Present''] by Surgeon General W B Beatson (Late Deputy Surgeon General, Lahore Division) 1902. Reprinted from the ''Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review October 1902''. Archive.org
* ''A History of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1913'' (two volumes) by D. G. Crawford 1914. [https://archive.org/details/b21352148 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b21352148_0 Volume II] Archive.org. There are also additional files available on Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115856/page/n1/mode/2up ''Surgeons Twoe and a Barber. Being some account of the life and work of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1947''] by Lieut.-Colonel Donald McDonald 1950. Archive.org. Digital text quality is poor in places, particularly left located pages in the two page viewing option. More details about the book are contained in these reviews: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2068793/?page=1 Review 1] and [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2530269/?page=1 Review 2]
===Lists of medical officers===
*''[[Military_reading_list#Medical_Departments|Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930]]'' by D.G. Crawford 1930. Review in FIBIS Military Reading List. Available with sample pages only Preview Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DlK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Volume One: 1615-1799], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=olK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 Volume Two 1800-1930].
**Ancestry, a pay website, has a database consisting of this book [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/indianmedicalservice/ "UK, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615 -1930"] consisting of index records and images from the book.
**The book is also available as a [[LDSFamilySearch]] digitised microfilm, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287926 catalogue entry], viewable at a FS family history centre, or FS affiliate library, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
: This book includes chapters relating to Bengal (pages 1-243), Madras (pages 244-390), Bombay (pages 391-496), General List 1897-1930 (pages 497-601), Eastern Factories 1605-1775 (pages 602-604); Sumatra or West Coast 1696-1825 (pages 605-617); St. Helena 1684-1831 (pages 618-622); China 1763-1834 (pages 623-624); Prince of Wales Island (page 625); Appendices from page 629. If you are browsing the book through Ancestry, there are errata pages at the beginning of the digital file, before "Contents", pages xv-xvi, digital images 67-68.
*[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/downloads/ma_teaching/lo/c123_9c.pdf “European medicine in India from the sixteenth century”] (pdf), a transcribed lecture from University College London (2004)
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630004 "Medicine amidst War and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Madras"] by Pratik Chakrabarti, ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' 2006 Spring; 80(1): 1–38
*[httphttps://printswww.iiapias.resac.in/bitstreamarticle/2248fulltext/3416jbsc/3024/The%20truth%20behind%20the%20legend:%20European%20doctors%20in%20pre03/0259-colonial%20India 0268 "The truth behind the legend: European doctors in pre-colonial India"] by Rajesh Kochhar ''Journal of Biosciences'' 1999 Sep.; 24(3): 259-68. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180317220706/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WexWv74AyEkJ:prints.iiap.res.in/bitstream/2248/3416/3/The%2520truth%2520behind%2520the%2520legend:%2520European%2520doctors%2520in%2520pre-colonial%2520India+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=safari Alternative version].
*[https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3D62948301B5B8E33F26C3D3F776A154/S0007087400029137a.pdf/tropical_medicine_in_nineteenthcentury_india.pdf "Tropical medicine in nineteenth-century India"] by Mark Harrison ''The British Journal for the History of Science'' [BJHS], 1992, 25 Issue 3, 299-318.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/97/6/471.full.pdf "The Directors of Medical Services in India"] by Major J. B. Neal, ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1951;97:6 471-491. They had the chief responsibility for British Military Medicine in India from 1857 to 1947.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZRUDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1 ''Handbook for Medical Officers of H.M. Service in India''] by Charles Alexander Gordon M.D. published 1851 (written 1846). Hints on the Duties of Medical Officers. Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=appeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Code of Regulations for the Medical Department of the Presidency of Bombay''] 1849 Google Books
*"Echoes of the Past: The Army Medical Service in India, 1840–53' " by Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Kempthorne ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1931 [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/56/3/220.full.pdf Part 1] Volume 56:3 p 220-228 [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/56/4/299.full.pdf Part 2] Volume 56:4 p 299-310
*''Annual Report of the Medical College of Bengal'': [https://archive.org/details/b2476680x Twelfth year 1846-47], [https://archive.org/details/b24766811 Thirteenth year 1847-48], [https://archive.org/details/b24766823 Fourteenth year 1848-49], [https://archive.org/details/b24766835 Fifteenth year 1849-50], [https://archive.org/details/b24766847 Sixteenth year 1850-51], [https://archive.org/details/b24766859_0 Seventeenth year 1851-52]. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=oRgCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA324 Salaries of Indian Medical Officers in Calcutta c 1860], page 324 ''Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1 1860'' (published London) Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/medicaljurisprud00lyonuoft 7th edition 1921] by L A Waddell, Lt.-Colonel IMS (Retd). Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b24758450 ''Around the world via India : a medical tour''] by Nicholas Senn 1905. Contains chapters on India and Ceylon, including hospitals. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b28983105/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Hand-book for Officers of the Indian Medical Service in Military Employ''] by Captain H Boulton IMS, Medical Officer 31st Punjabis. 1909. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.</ref> She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship.
*[http://dare.uva.nl/document/124912 ''Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier''] (pdf) by Alex McKay International Institute for Asian Studies 2007 Contents page 6(of the pdf) Notes page 250 Bibliography page 286 Index page 304, part of the Digital Academic Repository van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
