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*Page 12 of this pdf link gives details of [http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/download/abudhabi2009.pdf Francis Day] who joined the Madras Medical Service in 1852. He wrote a 1863 book on Cochin [http://www.google.com/books?id=awsIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books]. He became the most important writer on Indian fishes, his first book on fish being ''Fishes of Malabar'' 1865. [http://www.archive.org/details/fishesofmalabar00dayf Archive.org] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Day Wikipedia]
*Lists the Medical Officers of the Bengal Medical Service who died during the Mutiny [http://books.google.com/books?id=kfwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513 Google Books]
*Obituary of Assistant-Surgeon [http://books.google.com/books?id=EX4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369 W. J. Thomson], Civil Surgeon of Gurgaon (near Delhi),who died 1863.He had “an early death” and appears to have joined the Bengal Medical Service after 1858.
*[http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap1/Shaughnessy.htm Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889)] -modern treatment for cholera, introduced cannabis to Western medicine, laid first telegraph system in Asia.<br> ''Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India'' by M Adams 1889 [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirofsurgeonm00adamrich#page/n11/mode/2up Archive.org]
*Laura and Charles Hope were Baptist medical missionaries from Australia, for most of the period 1893 to 1934 [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140557b.htm Australian DIctionary of Biography]
