29,555
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→The Situation by the 1870s
The book is ''A Code of Medical and Sanitary Regulations for the Guidance of Medical Officers serving in the Madras Presidency'' by William Robert Cornish (1870). [http://books.google.com/books?id=WhUDAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], which contains the above references and [http://books.google.com/books?id=NhcDAAAAQAAJ Volume 2]. Both these books are snippet view only. Some readers may be able to access them using a proxy server. (An author was originally able to access these books, but now cannot.)
Gary Bateman has advised that “Civil Apothecary was an intermediate class between Civil Assistant Surgeon and Civil Hospital Assistant. It was only in the Madras Presidency and started in 1875 but was abolished in 1884.There were five grades, Rs 50, 75, 100, 125, & 150 with an additional Rs50 charge allowance.”
Some apothecaries working in hospitals also had some private patients, as [http://books.google.com/books?id=LBq1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 this article (''Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science'' 1863 v7)] details.
