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Pages 235 to 246 ''Report of the Board of Education, Bombay'' January 1,1850 to April 30, 1851 (Published 1851). [http://books.google.com/books?id=38AIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA235 Full article]

Formal training for the Subordinate Medical Department, Hyderabad commenced when the Bolarum Medical School was established in 1839 to “qualify India-born lads for all the subordinate medical grades and duties of the [Nizam’s] Army”. On graduation, they were qualified to be 2nd Dressers. Refer [http://books.google.com/books?id=vwQHAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA346 “An Account of the Medical School at Bolarum”] from ''The Madras Quarterly Medical Journal Volume 1 1839''. In 1846 the Bolarum Medical School was closed, as it was no longer needed, and the Hyderabad Medical School at Chuddergha(u)t, (now the Osmania Medical College) was then established, refer this [http://www.omcalumni.org link]. In 1868, according to correspondence in the ''Times of India'' dated 11 March 1868 and 18 March 1868, “the assistant apothecaries of the Hyderabad Contingent have all been promoted to apothecaries”... “the designation they now bear ( assistant apothecary) was allowed them by Government not many years ago”. The correspondence refers to the training in the Bolarum Medical School. It is unclear whether all the apothecaries referred to were trained in the period 1839-1846. It seems more likely the Hyderabad Medical School continued this training.