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M. S. Dept. supplies.—Appendix V.
Appendix V—contd.
Table VI.—Stores supplied annually—contd.
Item
No.
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
33
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
51
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
61
67
68
Medicines.
Ferri sulphas .
.
.
.
.
Gentianae radix pulv. . . .
Glycerinum
.
.
.
.
.
Hydargyri iodidum rubrum . .
„
perchloridum
(corrosive
sublimate).
„
subchloridum (calomel) .
Iodoformum .
.
.
.
.
Iodom . . . . .
Liquor ammoniæ . . . . .
„
„
acetatis fortis . .
„
arsenicalis
.
.
.
.
„
zinci chloridi .
.
.
.
Magnesii carbonas levis . . .
„
sulphas
.
.
.
.
.
Morphinae hydrochloridum . .
Nux vomica
.
.
.
.
.
Oil, cheer pine
.
.
.
.
.
Oleum ricini .
.
. .
„ sesami .
.
.
.
.
„ terebinthinæ .
.
.
.
Opii pulvis . . . . .
Phenyle .
.
. . . .
Pix burgundica .
.
.
.
„ liquida (tar, Stockholm) . .
Plumbi acetas .
.
.
.
.
Potassii chloras
. . . .
„
iodidum
. . . .
„
nitras
. . . .
„
permanganas . . .
Resina
.
.
.
.
.
.
Sapo mollis
. . . . .
Sodii bicarbonas
. . . .
Solution antiseptic (a)
Spiritus ammoniæ aromaticus . .
„
ætheris
. . . .
„
„ nitrosi . . .
„
rectificatus .
.
.
.
Strychnina
. . . . .
Sulphur sublimatum
Tinctura aconiti
. . . .
„ cardamomi composita . .
„
iodi . . . . .
„
opii
.
.
.
.
.
Unguentum acidi borici . . .
„
hydrargyri . . .
Vaseline (paraffinum molle) . .
Zinci oxidum . . . . .
„ sulphas . . . . .
Scale per 100animals:
Chief
hospital.
lbs.
2
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
1
10
0
0
4
2
1
4
0
2
1
4
0
0
0
2
0
1
6
2
0
1
1
2
1
0
2
0
2
0
2
0
0
1
0
2
oz.
0
0
0
2
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
8
4
2
0
8
0
0
0
8
0
0
0
0
0¼
0
1
0
4
8
4
8
0
8
0
Branch
hospital.
lbs.
2
1
2
0
...
0
0
...
1 1
...
...
1
10
...
0
4
...
1
4
0
2
1
4
0
0
...
2
...
1
6
2
0
1
1
2
...
...
2
0
2
...
2
0
0
1
0
2
oz.
0
0
0
2
...
2
1
...
0 0
...
...
0
0
...
1
0
...
0
0
4
0
0
0
8
4
...
0
...
0
0
0
8
0
0
0
...
...
0
1
0
...
8
4
2
0
8
0
Remarks.
(a) Antiseptic solution is made of perchloride of mercury 240 grs., chloride of sodium 240 grs., glycerine 6
fluid ounces, and rectified spirits 4 fluid ounces. One ounce diluted up to 5 piots with water makes a solution
equal to 1 in 2,000 parts.
Item
No.
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
Necessaries.
Corks, phials . . .
„
pints . . .
„
quarts . . .
Gallipots, country . . .
Gauze, antiseptic . . .
Ligature, flax . .
„
silk . .
Scale per
hospital.
12 per cent. of
strength.
10 yds. per cent. of
strength.
½
oz. per cent. of
strength.
Remarks.
Appendix V.—Miscellaneous supplies.
22
Appendix V—concld.
Table VI.—Stores supplied annually—concld.
Item
No.
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
Necessaries.
Lint, boric .
.
.
.
„ carbolized . . .
Material staining and mount-
ing for microscope. (a)
Phials,
common, English,
narrow month
„
wide
„ .
Pins, common, papers . .
„ safety .
.
.
.
Sponge
.
.
.
.
Tape, broad, pieces
„
for sutures, ¼-inch .
Tow, carbolized
„ English . . .
Twine, English, balls . .
Wire for sutures . . .
Wool, absorbent . . .
„ boric .
.
.
.
Scale per
hospital.
2 oz. per cent.of strength
8
„
„
„
„
as required.
3 per cent. of
strength.
1 per batty. and 2
per regt.
6
per cent. of
strength.
6 oz. per cent. of
strength.
2 per batty. and 4 per
regt.
1 piece
1 lb.
8 lbs.
per cent. of
strength.
2 per batty. and 4 per
regt.
1 oz.
1 lb.
2 oz.
per cent. of
strength.
Remarks.
(a) Staining and mounting materials for
microscope—
Balsam, Canada .
.
.
2
ozs.
Bottles, reageant, with stop-
pers and rods
.
4
„
with stoppers, half
pint
.
.
.
2
Brashes, camel hair
.
.
3
Fuchsine, in powder . . 5 grs.
Glasses, cover, two sizes
. 12
Lamp, spirit, small
.
. 1
Methyl, violet, in powder
. 5 grs.
Needles, in handles
.
.
4
Oil of cloves
.
.
.1
oz.
Paper, filter
.
.
.1
qr.
Slides, glass, two sizes
.
24
Tubes, test . . . . 6
Section V.—SUPPLIES BY OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND BY LOCAL PURCHASE.
Table VII.—Equipment of a veterinary hospital.
Item
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Articles.
Beaters, hand, wood† . . .
Desk knife || .
.
.
.
.
Glasses for inkstand ||
.
.
.
India-rubber||
.
.
.
.
Needles ||
. .
Paper-cutter||
.
.
.
.
Rammers, earth, handled, wood† .
Ruler || . . . . . .
Wooden inkstand || . .
Scale.
2 per cent. of
strength.
1
2
1
2
1
1 per cent. of
strength.
1
1
Remarks.
per officer or clerk.
per officer or clerk.
Table VIII.— Stores supplied periodically.
Item
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Articles.
Baskets† . . . .
Black ink powder || . . .
Blotting paper|| . . . .
Brooms†
.
.
.
. .
Brown paper || .
. . .
Draft paper, double foolscap || .
Envelopes, foolscap size || .
„
note
„ || . .
Pencil, lead || . . . .
Penholder
||
.
.
. .
Red ink powder || . . . .
„ tape || . . . .
Scaling wax || . . . .
Silk thread ||
.
.
. .
Steel pen, nibs || . . .
Writing paper
foolscap || . .
note || . . . .
Scale.
5
4 bundle.
12 sheets.
5
2 quires.
3 quires.
250
200
4
1
1 bundle.
1 bundle.
1 stick.
1 skein.
24
5 quires.
5 quirse.
Remarks.
per cent. of strength, quarterly.
per cent. of strength, quarterly.
per corps
in veterinary
charge,
annually.
† Stores which may be purchased locally.
|| Stores supplied by the stationery department. The superintendent of government stationery supplies
indent forms. Indents will be forwarded to reach him by February 1st.
INDEX.
Paras, etc.
A
Accounts of Poona school submitted
to L. G.
C.
.
.
.
.
.
Administrative veterinary offi-
cers. (See Officers.)
Allotment of officers, A. V. D. and
N. C. Os. (U. L.) . . . .
Allowances—
charge of Poona school . . .
performance of civil duties
. Appx.
Animals—
civil department, professional aid to .
officers', except chargers, not admit-
ted to hospitals .
.
.
.
of units admitted to hospitals . .
Anthrax, diagnosis of, how confirmed .
Appointments—
administrative, by whom sanctioned,
qualifications for, tenure of . .
farrier-sergeant; shoeing-smith
Army Veterinary Schools. (See
Schools.)
Arrival reports—
animals', to whom sent
officers',
„ „ . . .
Articles, unserviceable, disposal of
Attendance on chargers . .
B
Boards—
examination at veterinary schools
survey of unserviceable articles
Books—
supply of, to hospitals . .
text, Punjab veterinary college
Boxes, Camp, Veterinary—
use on march
. . .
Branch hospitals. (See Hospi-
tals.)
C
Carcasses, diseased animals, disposal of
Certificate—
transfer of stores, sent to I. V. O.
veterinary, regarding chargers . .
Chargers—
admission to hospital
.
.
.
attendance on, by veterinary officers
examination by veterinary officers
.
medicines supplied free to . .
5
1, 2
51
IV
14
44
22
32
5
46
77
76
44
61
70
69
40
31
79
45
44
44
45
44
Paras, etc.
Chests—
universal, kept complete
„
use of, at manoeuvres .
Chief hospitals. (see Hospitals.)
Classes, veterinary schools—
application to attend, how submitted .
application to withdraw from
composition and dates of assembly of
entry in pocket-ledger of soldier
examination of candidates at
officers attending, fees of . .
publication of names
qualifications of soldiers attending
questions of discipline at
subjects of instruction .
. Appx.
Classification-
diseases
.
.
.
. Appx.
hospitals
.
.
.
.
.
Cold-shoers, non-silladar cavalry .
College, Punjab veterinary. (See
Punjab veterinary college.)
17
17
56
60
56
61
61
58
61
57
60
III
II
18
47
Contagious disease. (see Disease.)
Correspondence—
branch hospital, submission of . .
P. V.
O.
.
.
.
.
S. V. O. with O. C. unit
transfer of stores .
. Appx. V, (IV)
D
Departure reports—
animals', to whom sent .
.
.
officers',
„
„
. . .
Destruction of animals—
cases of rinderpest and lymphangitis
to prevent spread of disease
.
.
Discharge of veterinary pupils
Discipline, veterinary classes . .
Director-General, A. V. D.—
correspondence with . . .
receipt of medal reported to
.
.
Disease, contagious—
detection of, by veterinary officers
duties of S. V.
O.
.
.
inspection of horses of dealers for
isolation and destruction of animals,
disposal of carcasses, disinfection .
reports by civil authorities of outbreak
Diseases, classification and nomencla-
11
8
11
4
77
76
34
31
50
60
8
78
27
11, 27
29
31
28
turc
.
.
.
.
.
Appx. II
Disinfection of stalls, gear, etc
Dressers, remount department—
admitted to Punjab veterinary college
recovery of value of text-books from
31
62
69
Index.
26
Paras, etc.
Reports—
animals, arrival and departure of
bi-monthly inspection, submission of .
communication of . . .
fortnightly, of horse left behind
„
outbreak of disease
inspection, by I. V. O. . .
marching
.
.
.
.
officers, arrival and departure of
77
12
74
42
27
10
38
76
outbreak of contagious disease . 11, 27, 28
receipt of medal or decoration .
rendered by veterinary officers .
sick officers .
.
.
.
73
72
75
veterinary schools .
.
.52,
55
Returns—
rendered by veterinary officers.
sick, copies supplied to corps
inarching .
.
.
..
72
41
statistical, diseases how entered Appx. II
Rinderpest, destruction of animals .
S
Schools, army veterinary—
application to attend
classes.
„
to withdraw, disposal of .
examinations
.
.
..
composition and assembly of classes .
34
56
60
61
56
managing committees of .
.51, 54
officers to pay fees .
..
Poona School —
allowance to veterinary
officer.
funds
.
.
..
qualifications of soldiers attending
question of discipline at
.
report and balance sheet
..
58
51
53
57
60
52
subjects of instruction . .Appx. III
Umballa and Simla Schools—
instructor of
.
.
..
S. V. O.—
bi-monthly inspection by
.
.
Burma, duties of
. . .
.
corresponds with Os. C. corps
.
.
duties and
responsibilities.
establishment, hospital, under .
.
furniture of hospital, in charge of .
marching inspections by
.
.
orderlies, hospital, under orders of .
55
12
9
11
11
21
24
39
48
reports by, of outbreak of disease
11, 27
staff officer of O. C. station
.
.
Umballa, instructor of school .
.
11
55
Paras, etc.
Shoeing-smiths—
selection and training of .
.
.
Sick reports, officers' . .
.
Stallions, treatment of .
.
.
Stalls and standings—
disinfection of
.
.
.
.
repairs of floors of .
.
.
.
Stores, medical—
instructions regarding Appx. V (IV)
Supplies, hospital—
46
75
41
31
26
1—7
medical store dept.
Appx. V (IV)
M. W. S.
.
.
„
ordnance department
„
stationery and local purchases
„
S. and T. corps
.
„
T
Transfer—
certificate, sent to I. V. O. . .
establishments
.
.
.
.
medical stores, list sent to I. V. O.
(III)
(I)
(V)
(II)
79
3
Appx. V (IV) 2
Tenure of administrative appointments
Tour of service . .
.
U
U. L., establishment of N. C. Os. .
.
Unserviceable articles—
5
6
2
disposal of . .
Appx. V (IV) 4
V
Veterinary history sheets—
accompany animal
.
.
how prepared and kept up . .
42, 71
71
Veterinary officers. (See Officers.)
Veterinary camp boxes .
.
Veterinary universal chests .
Visitors, hospital . .
.
.
W
Wallets, veterinary, inspection of
40
17
25
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SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS
BY
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF INDIA.
EDITED BY
SIR BENJAMIN SIMPSON, M.D., K.C.I.E.,
SURGEON-GENERAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
PART III.
1887.
1,—Notes from the Biological Laboratory attached to the Office of the Sanitary
Commissioner with the Government of India.—D. D. Cunningham.
2.—Note regarding certain characters in the Sub-Soil of Calcutta.—D. D.
Cunningham.
3.—On a new Genus of the Family Ustilagineæ.—D. D. Cunningham.
4 —On an Entophytic Alga occurring in the leaves of Limnanthemum Indicum,
with notes on a peculiarly parasitic variety of Mycoidea.—D. D. Cun-
ningham.
5.—The Fly-catching habit of Wrightia coccinea.— A . Tomes.
6.—Note on the occurrence of a minute Blood-Spirillum in an Indian Rat.—
H. Vandyke Carter.
7.—On the lately demonstrated Blood-contamination and Infective Disease of the
Rat and of Equines in India.— H. Vandyke Carter.
8.—Observations on Bacteria in Cholera.—G. Bomford.
9.—On the Phenomena of Propagation of Movement in Mimosa Pudica.—
D. D. Cunningham.
10.—Note on some Aspects and Relations of the Blood-organisms in Ague.—By
H. Vandyke. Carter.
CALCUTTA:
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA.
1888.
Price 3 rupees.
SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS
BY
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF INDIA.
EDITED BY
SIR BENJAMIN SIMPSON, M.D., K.C.I.E.,
S SURGEON-GENERAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
PART III.
1887.
1.—Notes from the Biological Laboratory attached to the Office of the
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.—D. D. .
Cunningham.
2.—Note regarding certain characters in the Sub-Soil of Calcutta.—
D. D. Cunningham.
3.—On a new Genus of the Family Ustilagineæ.—D. D. Cunningham.
4.—On an Entophytic Alga occurring in the leaves of Limnanthemum
Indicum, with notes on a peculiarly parasitic variety of Mycoidea.
—D. D. Cunningham.
5.—The Fly-catching habit of Wrightia coccinea.— A . Tomes.
6.—Note on the occurrence of a minute Blood-Spirillum in an Indian
Rat.—H. Vandyke Carter.
7.—On the lately demonstrated Blood-contamination and Infective Disease
of the Rat and of Equines in India.— H. Vandyke Carter.
8.—Observations on. Bacteria in Cholera.— G. Bomford.
9.—On the Phenomena of Propagation of Movement in Mimosa Pudica.—
D. D. Cunningham.
10.—Note on some Aspects and Relations of the Blood-organisms in Ague.
—By H. Vandyke Carter.
CALCUTTA:
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA.
1888.
Price 3 rupees.
Notes from the Biological Laboratory attached to the Office of
the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
BY
SURGEON-MAJOR D. D. CUNNINGHAM, M.B.,
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SANITARY COMMISSIONER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
(With Plate I.)
I.—On the occurrence of peculiar organisms in the blood of Horses
and their supposed pathogenic nature. (Plate I, Fig. I.)1
IN the course of 1880, Inspecting Veterinary-Surgeon G. Evans submitted a
report on " Surra" as a newly-diagnosed disease very prevalent among horses
in the stations of the North-West Frontier, and, according to his observation,
constantly associated with the presence of numerous peculiar organisms in the
blood. He showed that inoculation of the blood of diseased animals into
healthy ones was followed by the development of the disease in the latter and
by the appearance of the parasites in the blood. -At the same time it appeared
that the presence of the parasites in the blood was not necessarily accompanied
by the presence of any morbid effects in the case of certain animals, for a dog
which had been inoculated with blood from a case of " Surra," and subsequently
given by Dr. Evans to the late Dr. Lewis for examination, continued for long
after, and when apparently in perfect health, to show an abundance of the organ-
isms intermittently in its blood. According to Dr. Lewis they were very similar
to, if not identical with, the flagellated organisms discovered by him in the blood
of apparently healthy rats in 1878.
Subsequently Veterinary-Surgeon J . H. Steel, A.V.D., reported on " an
Obscure and Fatal Disease among Transport Mules in British Burma," which
appeared in 1883 and continued to prevail in the two following years. This
disease he regarded as a relapsing fever closely allied to relapsing fever of the
human subject, and identical with the " Surra" of Dr. Evans' Report, being, like
it, accompanied by the presence of numerous organisms in the blood. Dr. Steel
believed these to be Schizomycetes of spirillar type closely allied to Spirillum
obermeyeri of human relapsing fever. He, like Dr. Evans, found that the
disease was communicable from sick to healthy animals by means of inoculations
of blood, and that the parasites were then to be found in the blood of the infect-
ed ones.
1
This paper had been written and submitted to the Press before the author had seen Dr. E. Crook-
shank's paper on the same subject in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society— Ed.
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were in the case of the dog into which they were introduced by inoculation, and
as, at all events, similar organisms have been shown by Dr. Lewis to occur in
the blood of healthy rats. It has further to be shown that they are invariably
present in cases of the disease. In so far as thermometrical data go, the
disease observed by Dr. Gunn at Meerut appears to have been identical with
that studied by Dr. Steel in Burma, and yet the presence of such organisms in
the blood was not apparently observed, and in so far as my own observations go
was not constant. This may, no doubt, possibly be due to the specimens of blood
having been taken at times when the organisms were absent or present in very
small numbers in the general circulation, as it is recorded that their appearance
is of an intermittent character, and, as regards the samples examined by me,
may possibly have been connected with the length of time elapsing between the
period at which they were taken and that at which they came into my posses-
sion. The facts are, however, at least such as to render it additionally neces-
sary that definite evidence should be forthcoming to show the constant
association of the disease with the presence of the parasites. The fact of the
occurrence of the disease in previously healthy animals and the appearance of
the parasite in their blood after inoculation do not afford data of any conclusive
value. They certainly show that the parasites can be transferred from the body
of one animal to that of another, but that is all. There is nothing to show that
they gave rise to the associated disease. No clean artificial cultivations have
as yet been carried out, and all inoculations have been conducted by means of
blood directly transferred from the diseased to the healthy animal; so that, fully
granting that the disease has been shown to be inoculable and that the parasites
are similarly transferable, there is yet nothing to show that the two phenomena
hold any beyond a parallel relation to one another; there is nothing to show that
the transplantation of the parasites was the cause of the development of the
disease in the inoculated animals. Whilst, on the one hand, there is this entire
absence of positive evidence of the pathogenic function of the parasites, there is,
on the other hand, some evidence pointing in an opposite direction—evidence
which is, at all events, calculated to raise additional doubts as to their essential
relation to the disease. This lies in Dr. Lewis' observations, which have been
already referred to, on the persistent intermittent occurrence of large numbers of
the organisms in the blood of a dog long after inoculation and quite apart from
the presence of any morbid symptoms.
II—On a peculiar, truly spirillar form of the Choleraic Comma-
Bacillus (Plate I, Fig. 2.)
Truly spirillar forms of the choleraic comma-bacillus appear to occur with
extreme rarity in cultivations in Calcutta. It is, of course, far from uncommon
to meet with cultivations in which many of the elements are associated so
as to form wavy filaments of various lengths. These are, however, as a rule,
Medical Officers of the Army of India. 5
not truly spirillar, the constituent elements really lying in one plane and
the filaments having no tendency to assume a spiral arrangement, but consist-
ing merely of a series of commas adhering to one another by their extremities
in simple linear order. The character of such filaments varies according
as the constituent commas present their convex and concave outlines throughout
to the same sides of the filament, or as they are disposed, so that an alter-
nation in the direction of their outlines is present, the convex and concave
contours of adjacent commas being directed to opposite sides. The outline
of the filaments in the first case presents a series of crescents with intervening
depressions and prominent points running along the one side, and rounded
elevations and angular inter-spaces on the other. In the second case the
filament is alike on both sides and simply undulate. Whatever be the variation
in detail, however, such filaments agree in their non-spiral character.
So rarely does a truly spiral arrangement appear to be that I have only
on one occasion met with unequivocal evidence of its presence. This was in the
cultivation of materials which were derived from a case of cholera which was
admitted into the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta, in the month of January.
A primary plate-cultivation from it furnished no colonies of typical commas
alone, but many which, while containing a certain proportion of isolated
commas, were composed in greater part of peculiar filaments, many of which at
one or other point in their course assumed a truly spiral character. Others
were merely undulate and many S-shaped bodies were also present. In
those specimens in which true spirals were present the filaments throughout the
greater part of their length were merely undulate and in some cases almost
straight, and it was only here and there at isolated points that abrupt spirals of
from one to three turns were present. The numbers of such filaments were
very large as compared with those of the other forms present in the colonies.
In certain filaments, in place of actual spirals, sudden deep curvatures were
present, the curved portions being considerably thicker than the rest of the
filaments and closely resembling the larger varieties of curved Schizomycetes
occurring so abundantly in the intestinal contents of healthy guinea-pigs.
The protoplasmic contents of the curved portions were often distinctly vacuo-
late. Attempts at the continued propagation of this peculiar variety of
choleraic commas failed, as even in secondary cultivations true spirals were
entirely absent and filamentous forms of any kind rare, while in tertiary ones the
colonies consisted of typical commas alone.
III.—On the occurrence of Schizomycetes in the peritoneal secretion
of cases of Cholera.
After it had been ascertained that in certain cases of subcutaneous injec-
tion of choleraic comma-bacilli in guinea-pigs a very excessive multiplication of