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== People by occupation ==
Thanks for your message Sarah. You are the wiki expert so I'll go along with however you feel it should be organised. When I started the Military Commanders biographies I found a lot of single people under Ocupations so I relocated them to People. I have also created a Category for Military Commanders with British, French, Indian and Other subcategories. If you feel this needs re-casting, please let me know. The sticking point for me was putting East India Company under Category:People by Occupation when it is manifestly neither a person or an occupation. Thanks for your help.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 07:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
== Battle of Josshouse Hill ==
Someone has inserted irrelevant text on this page and the Talk page. I have undone it. You might have a look at the History to check I have done the right thing.--[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 07:01, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
==Journal cover pic==
Noted, although it has been on the page [[FIBIS Journal]] since November 2009, and was uoloaded by another. Would it be possible to upload some, or all of the FIBIS Journal covers, which are cuurently used for the Journals in the FIBIS shop and I could add them to the page [[FIBIS Journal]]. Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] 12:34, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
== Images ==
Hi Sarah<br />Belated thanks for organising all the images in the Elizabeth Guns article. Sorry I didn't enter them correctly first time. Having been out of circulation for a while I missed the notifications. Regards --[[User:Symorsebrown|Sy]] 12:10, 31 October 2011 (PDT)
==Indian Subordinate Medical Service==
Hi Sarah, the ISM Service is different to the ISM Department, according to this Google Books link http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PShpbwti_3EC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=Indian+Subordinate+Medical+Service&source=bl&ots=RpsqnAStyB&sig=POStCCl2jHkwfNhmvvUIUPih-9U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cBXoUpiKOIq4iQeyvYHQDA&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Indian%20Subordinate%20Medical%20Service&f=false - Regards[[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]])
==Apothecary==
Hi Sarah, I must say I don’t agree with the quick definition of Apothecary which has been added.
“Initially, under the East India Company, this was a junior medical orderly.”
I don’t think it could be said that an Apothecary was ever a junior medical orderly, at least not in Australian terms, where an orderly does nothing to do with matters of treatment at all. Maybe when they first started their training as boys this terminology might apply, but not trained Apothecaries. In 1812 boys were to be trained as “Compounders and Dressers, and ultimately as Apothecaries and Sub Assistant Surgeons”
If you read down the Apothecary page it says “Medical College training for Hospital Apprentices was introduced in 1847 in Bengal following the system that had previously been successfully introduced in Madras. "General Order 200" dated 15 June 1847 is about Apprenticeships in the Bengal Subordinate Medical Department. It sets out that candidates would sit an examination to become an apprentice. Those successful would serve for two years as an apprentice in the Hospital of a European Regiment or General Hospital. They then may be selected by the Medical Board for a studentship in the Medical College. They would then attend a two year course of study comprising Anatomy, Dissection, Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the practice of Medicine and Surgery and more especially clinical instruction in connection with the last two branches. At the end of the two years they were to undergo an examination. If successful they were to be drafted to European Regiments or to the General Hospital, there to wait their turn for promotion as Assistant Apothecaries or Assistant Stewards. Promotion to Apothecary was also to be by examination.
Even comparing an Apothecary to a senior nurse is not correct, at least for the Australian situation, because no nurses would have studied, or would perform surgery. I think a lower ranked doctor would be more accurate terminology, or possibly a senior nurse who performed surgery.
By the time the Indian Army was established in 1895, the term Assistant Surgeon was the term then used, and I believe by training they were regarded as fully qualified medical men.
<br> Regards [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]])
<br>Sarah, now changed, per your comment on my User page [[User:Maureene|Maureene]] ([[User talk:Maureene|talk]]) 1 February 2014
