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==Records==
===Online records===
*The following 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] .<refname=BIIC>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171203150857/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/britishinindia/index.html The British in India Collection] British Library Help for Researchers, now an archived webpage.</ref>. These records are located in the category Education & work/Professions.
**IOR/L/MIL/9/358, 360-364, 366-396 Assistant-Surgeons’ Papers, 1804-1854
**IOR/L/MIL/9/397-408 Papers of Assistant-Surgeons selected by the Board of Examiners,, 1855-1881
===British Library===
The [[British Library]] information page , now archived, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180817143450/http://www.bl.uk:80/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/indianmedicalservice/indianmedical.html 'Indian Medical Service'] lists records available in the BL.
There are also “detailed records of service of surgeons and assistant-surgeons, compiled at East India House” to 1858. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_5-5_1&cid=1-1-2#1-1-2 Bengal Service Army Lists - Medical IOR/L/MIL/10/70-74] c 1765-1858 and LDS microfilm [https://www.familysearch.org/eng/librarysearch/fhlcatalogcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=695418&disp=Bengal+Service+Army+lists+%2D+medical%2C&columns=*,02C0 catalogue entry]; [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_6-2_1-5&cid=1-1-1-5#1-1-1-5 Madras Service Army Lists - Medical IOR/L/MIL/11/70-72] c 1760-1858 and LDS microfilm [https://www.familysearch.org/eng/librarysearch/fhlcatalogcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=696654&disp=Madras+service+army+lists%2C+medical+%2D&columns=*,0,0 catalogue entry]; [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_7-2&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 Bombay Service Army Lists - Medical IOR/L/MIL/12/85-87] 1763-1858 and LDS microfilm [https://www.familysearch.org/engsearch/librarycatalog/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=746535&disp=Bombay+Service+Army+lists+%2D+medical+of&columns=*,0,0 catalogue entry]. It is not known to what extent these records are included in Crawford’s book ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service'', refer below.
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] .<refname=BIIC/>[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/britishinindia/index.html The British in India Collection] British Library Help for Researchers</ref>. Refer [[Doctor#Online records|Online records]] above.
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; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/500115 Volume 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/500116 Volume 2] Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India. Additionally, there There are two pdf downloads, from the DLI, scanned from different libraries, where the volume is not specified: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284834 also pdf download 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/64061 pdf download 2]. Mirror editions of the DLI additional files are also 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]
Two particularly useful books, listing service histories etc, are:
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t5ZRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR7#v=twopage&q&f=false''An Alphabetical List of the Medical Officers of the Indian Army 1764-1838''] by Edward Dodwell and James S. Miles (1839). Google Books. When viewing the alphabetical list, ensure that the viewing mode is two pages side by side, and if necessary click on the relevant icon.
*''[[Military_reading_list#Medical_Departments|Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930]]'' by D.G. Crawford 1930. Review in FIBIS Military Reading List. The book is available as a [[LDS]] microfilm, with this library catalogue [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=287926&disp=Roll++of++the++Indian++Medical++Service%&columns=*,0,0 entry]. Also available 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 [[LDS]] microfilm, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287926 catalogue entry].
: 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.
**page 43, has a section in the introduction called "The Indian Medical Service and the Subordinate Medical Service". Chapter 1 (page 56) is called "Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong"
*[https://archive.org/details/b29809770 ''The Medical Profession in India''] by Major-General Sir Patrick Hehir [1923] Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523947 ''I’d Live it Again''] by Lieut.-Col E J O’Meara, Indian Medical Service (rtd) 1935 is available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523947 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author is catalogued as Meara. An autobiography. He joined the IMS in 1898.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/238424 ''Indian Medical Service: A Handbook''] by Major A. N. Chopra 1939 is available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.238424 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
===Medical Journals===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=EX4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR6 "East India and China Stations"] ''Annals of military and naval surgery and tropical medicine and hygiene: Volume 1 for the year 1863'' 1864 Google Books. (There were no further editions published).
*'' The Indian Medical Gazette'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=oLkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 3, 1868] Google Books, [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmedicalgaz03calcuoft#page/288/mode/2up Volume 4, 1869], Archive.org [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hc3xuq?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume 8, 1873],[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hc3xuq?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Index] Hathi Trust, [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmedicalga00unkngoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 39, 1904] Archive.org
*The following Journals may be read online are available on Archive.org, mirrors of files from the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181760/page/n5 ''Indian Annals of Medical Science'' ] Volume 12 1867**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Calcutta+Journal+of++Medicine%29&sort=-date ''The Calcutta Journal of Medicine'' ] , in an incomplete series ranging from Volume 8, 1876 to Volume 3536, 1916 1917 **[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Indian+Medical+Record%22%29&sort=-date ''The Indian Medical Record Volume 14'' January-June 1898 and ]. A broken range from Volume 6, 1894 to Volume 20 January-June , 1901(currently four volumes).
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Scientific+memoirs+by+medical+officers+of+the+army+of+India&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&sort=-publicdate ''Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army of India'']. Broken range of volumes from 1884 to 1897. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Scientific+memoirs+by+officers+of+the+medical+and+sanitary+departments+of+the+Government+of+India%29&sort=-publicdate&page=1 ''Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India'']. Broken range of editions from New Series Volume 1 1902 to New Series Volume 60 1913. Archive.org
