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List of doctors and surgeons

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:*[http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtl040084.pdf List of Carter Papers in the Wellcome Institute], with a Biographical Note
*John Henry Sylvester was appointed to the Bombay Medical Service in 1853. His book [http://books.google.com/books?id=F3UIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Recollections of the campaign in Malwa and Central India: under Major General Sir Hugh Rose''] by Assistant Surgeon John Henry Sylvester 1860 Google Books is about the campaign during the Indian Mutiny. C 1875 he wrote a manuscript which was published in 1971 by Macmillan, London under the title ''Cavalry surgeon : the recollections of Deputy Surgeon-General John Henry Sylvester, Bombay Army''. Available at the [[British Library]] Review of the book (Scroll to bottom) [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xKjrfHWDQxEJ:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1795990/pdf/brmedj02262-0077d.pdf+Cavalry+surgeon+:+the+recollections+of+Deputy+Surgeon-General+John+Henry+Sylvester,+Bombay+Army.&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjrbUdwtJDF7N65JWfWtWRKIEk46j8OUwwc8i0-eeAFHL-z-nFLJqM4Zes1PyoF_vSGEi0en15FATSnjysFFKyE-5SqrGsUndnvXnBNoByu6x69qbQzXEbCfPZgA6qpgca10l6a&sig=AHIEtbSNHt4qH6GQ4wh58PNKJIM4nXPKKw html version], [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1795990/pdf/brmedj02262-0077d.pdf original pdf] which says "It’s description of ruthless fighting on the North-west frontier has no equal but Winston Churchhill’s Malakand Field Force". This [http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/india_during_the_raj_parts_1_and_2/biographical-notes-on-diarists-part-2.aspx link], scroll down, gives details of his service: He served in the Bombay Medical Service from 1853-1875. He saw service during the Persian campaign 1856-1857, Indian Mutiny, the Central India campaign, action at Mundesur, Jhansi, the battles of the Betwa and Kunch and the capture of Kalpi and Gwalior. In 1863 he was present on the North West Frontier and then saw action at Buner pass and the burning of Ambela
*George Edward Seward, who joined the Bombay Medical Service in 1855, is the subject of this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1302658336 post]. His service included that of Medical Officer and Cantonment Magistrate at Baroda, where he was instrumental in discovering poison in the cup given through the Gaekwar’s agents to Sir Robert Phayre in 1874, later giving evidence at the famous Baroda trial. <ref> De White [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1302658336 Seward] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 13 Apr 2011. Retrieved on 3 May 2014.</ref>
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1953602/?page=1 Obituary of R Markham Carter] 1875-1961 from the ''British Medical Journal'', with an additional [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1968961/?page=1 tribute] (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc) A large part of his career was in Bombay. He was renowned for the stand he took in respect of the appalling conditions suffered by casualties at Basra in Mesopotamia during the [[First World War]].
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20120203001248/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Wounded_01.htm "Wounded in Mesopotamia"] from an official report by Major R. Markham Carter from A Langley’s [http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://sd2cx1.webring.org/l/rd?ring=acrossthetrenche;id=3;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egreatwardifferent%2Ecom%2FGreat_War%2FCopy_index%2Ehtm The Great War in a Different Light], section "Fighting Johnny Turk in the Ottoman Empire" now an archived website

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