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:*[http://www.baylorhealth.edu/proceedings/22_4/22_4_flatt.pdf “Happy Birthday, Gray’s Anatomy”] by Adrian E Flatt. 2009. Contains some biographical details.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/dridathestoryofd010071mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Dr Ida: The Story Of Dr Ida Scudder Of Vellore''] by Dorothy Clarke Wilson 1959. Archive.org. Dr Ida Scudder was an American medical missionary who practised as a doctor in India from c 1900, who was the driving force behind the establishment of the Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MWgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Stray Leaves from the Diary of an Indian Officer''] by Robert Bakewell Cumberland 1865 Google Books. The author was an Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service from 1828, became a Surgeon 1 February 1845, and retired 20 January 1854.
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2013/01/the-apostle-of-mesmerism-in-india.html The ‘Apostle of Mesmerism in India’] Dr James Esdaile. Appointed 1831, returned to England in 1851. British Library-Untold Lives 25 January 2013.
*John M'Cosh, generally written McCosh, joined the Bengal Medical Service in 1831 and retired in 1856. In 1833 he was travelling to Australia on sick leave when he was shipwrecked. He spent two years in Assam<ref> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8MMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR6 ''Topography of Assam''] by John M'Cosh 1837, page vi</ref> and served in the [[2nd Sikh War]] and the [[2nd Burma War]], where he was a pioneer photographer.<ref> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NsolmLbz8igC&pg=PA49 ''Photography: a Cultural History''], page 49 by Mary Warner Marien 2006 Google Books</ref> For further details see [[Photographer|Photographer-Individuals]]. He also wrote poetry.<br>
:His books and articles include
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=kHgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 ''Narrative of the wreck of the lady Munro, on the desolate island of Amsterdam, October, 1833''] by J M'Cosh, Assistant Surgeon Hon. East India Company, Bengal Service 1835 Google Books
:*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2433698/?page=1 Obituary in the ''British Medical Journal''] dated 15 May 1897
:*Details of his youth and final years in [http://www.coulsons.co.uk/index_BluePlaque.htm Scarborough]
:*[http://www.leprosyhistory.org/cgi-bin/showdetails.pl?ID=11&type=person Dr Vandyke Carter, Doctor] from History of Leprosy, an initiative of the International Leprosy Association
:*”Causation Controversies in India: the Leprosy Career of Henry Vandyke Carter” Chapter 2, page 55 (online page 67) from [http://issuu.com/malpani/docs/leprosyinbombay ''Leprosy in the Bombay Presidency 1840-1897 Perceptions and Approaches to its Control''] . A PhD thesis in History by Shubhada S Pandya 2001
*George Edward Seward joined the Bombay Medical Service in 1855. 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
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/05/housing-shortages-in-bombay-in-the-1860s.html Housing Shortages in Bombay in the 1860s] 27 May 2014 British Library untold lives blog . Includes mention of Surgeon R Haines, and Assistant Surgeon C Joynt, Surgeon to the Jail and House of Correction in Bombay
===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.
*Sir Paul Jodrell was physician to the Nawab of Arcot. [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2013/07/scandal-and-ruin-in-18th-century-madras.html# Scandal and ruin in 18th century Madras] British Library Untold Lives blog, 12 July 2013. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=14837&back=,14838 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography details] indicate he was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians on 30 September 1786.
*[http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/european-adventurers-scholars-and-officials/honigberger-doctorjohn-martin.html Dr John Martin Honigberger] 1795-1865 was physician to the court of Lahore for periods from 1829 to 1849 and known to his Sikh contemporaries as Martin Sahib. The Sikh Encyclopedia [http://books.google.com/books?id=log_dbAdQ4gC&dq=Honigberger&pg=PP15 ''Thirty-five years in the East: Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. Together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five Eastern languages''] by John Martin Honigberger, late Physician to the Court of Lahore 1852 Google Books. The article "From the Land of Dracula to an English Rectory, vai the Sikh Court and India's Forests" by Peter Hubert [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] ''Number 26, Autumn 2011'', pages 2-10.
*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>
*[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
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/jungledaysbeing00munsgoog ''Jungle Days
being the experiences of an American Woman Doctor in India'']
by Arley Munson, M.D. 1913 Archive.org. The author joined c late 1900s the Wesleyan Mission at Medak, sixty miles from Hyderabad.
*[http://gaebler.info/india/selzer.htm ''World War II in British India''] by Hermann M. Selzer, M. D. Born a Polish Jew, he studied medicine in Germany and Italy and worked with his wife, as doctors in Lahore from the late 1930s. In December 1940, the family was arrested and taken as enemy aliens to first Purandhar and then Satara internment camps in Southern India until August 1946, when they were released and returned to Lahore. gaebler.info
