29,512
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
*Preston - Alexander Francis Preston [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095088/The-REAL-Dr-Watson-The-Victorian-army-medic-inspiration-Sherlocks-trusty-sidekick.html Surgeon-Major Alexander Francis Preston: The REAL Dr Watson: The Victorian army medic who was the inspiration for Sherlock's trusty sidekick] by Annabel Venning 2 February 2012 www.dailymail.co.uk. He was medical officer with the [[66th Regiment of Foot]] and was wounded in the [[Battle of Maiwand]], an action in the [[2nd Afghan War]]. [http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/contact-us/support-us/the-collection/detail/24986 Photograph], with details from The Wardrobe.
*Thomsett - [http://archive.org/stream/kohatkuramandkh00thogoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''Kohat, Kuram, and Khost; Or, Experiences and Adventures in the Late Afghan War''] by Richard Gillham-Thomsett, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 1884 Archive.org. He was initially appointed to the 20A Battery of Artillery.
===Royal Air Force===*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96 "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97. The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at [[Ambala]].
===Other===
*Theodore Ludvig Frederick Folly was a Danish surgeon who worked in the Danish colony of [[Tranquebar]] [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1251641/ “The Medical Skills of the Malabar Doctors in Tranquebar, India, as Recorded by Surgeon T L F Folly, 1798”] by Niklas Thode Jensen, PhD student Med Hist. 2005 October 1; 49(4): 489–515.
*John Williamson Palmer 1825-1906 was an American doctor, appointed, in Hong Kong, surgeon on the EIC war steamer Phlegethon (Bengal Marine). The previous surgeon, returning from a dinner party had slipped overboard and was drowned. The Phlegethon took part in the [[2nd Burma War]] in 1852-1853 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=CIUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The golden Dagon, or, Up and down the Irrawaddi: being passages of adventure in the Burman Empire''] by John Williamson Palmer 1856 Google Books details his experiences. He also wrote [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta. <ref> reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FKXovyWeMYIC&pg=PA389 Biographical details] <ref> ''"Words for the hour": a new anthology of American Civil War poetry'', edited by Faith Barrett, Cristanne Miller Google Books </ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/b28145860 ''At work : letters of Marie Elizabeth Hayes, M.B. Missionary Doctor Delhi, 1905-8''] 1909 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpseofindiabe1909swai#page/n7/mode/2up ''A Glimpse of India being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America''] 1909 Archive.org and :[http://www.archive.org/stream/claraaswainmdfi00socigoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Clara A. Swain, M.D.: first medical missionary to the women of the Orient''] by Mrs. Robert Hoskins. 1912 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/palaceofhealings00wils/page/n5 ''Palace of Healing: the story of Dr. Clara Swain, first woman missionary doctor, and the hospital she founded''] [at Bareilly] by Dorothy Clarke Wilson 1968. Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/b29353014 ''Beyond the Pir Panjal : life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir''] by Ernest F. Neve 1912. Archive.org. The author was a doctor who worked at the Kashmir Medical Mission.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pennellafghanfr00penngoog#page/n12/mode/1up ''Pennell of the Afghan frontier; the life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind medal for public service in India''] by Alice Maud Pennell 1914. Dr Pennell of the Bannu Medical Mission died at the age of 44.
