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REPORT ON THE WORKING OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
(3) Dr. C. A. Venugopal of the Tuberculosis Institute for three weeks.
(4) Sub-Assistant Surgeon Visvanatha Ayyar of the Royapettah Hospital
for about three months.
6. Two lectures of an educational nature were delivered by the Director of
the Institute during the course of the year. The first, given to the Medical
College Association, was entitled " snakes and snake bite." The second, to the
Presidency College Natural History Association, was on " Micro-organisms and
their relationship to disease " ; both lectures were illustrated with lantern slides.
7. The following Medical pamphlets were written for the Publicity Board by
Major J. A. Cruickshank, I.M.S., Assistant Director.
(1) Elephantiasis.
(2) Smallpox and vaccination.
VI.—RESEARCH WORK.
1. The investigation into the relative merits of lanoline and glycerine lymph,
which was carried on throughout the year and was the subject of a special report
to Government (Letter No. R.O.C. 8069-V., dated 2nd September 1922) has
already been referred to.
2. The King Institute was well represented at the ninth meeting of the
Indian Science Congress, which was held in Madras in January 1922. The
Director of the Institute was the President of the Medical Research Section for
the year. The following papers were read by members of the staff at the section
meetings :—
(1) Presidential address.
India's debt to Medical Research, by Major J. Cunningham, I.M.S.
(Since published in the Indian Medical Gazette, dated June 1922.)
(2) The necessity for a standard for vaccine lymph, by Majors J. Cunning-
ham and Cruickshank, I.M.S. (Accepted for publication in the Indian Journal of
Medical Research.)
(3) A filarial survey with a statistical enquiry into the relationship of
filariasis and elephantiasis, by Majors Cruickshank, Cunningham and Assistant
Surgeon T. Sitapati Ayyar. (Accepted for publication in the Indian Journal
of Medical Research.)
(4) Note on the ratios of the numerical equivalents of certain bacterial
suspensions obtained by the haemocytometer method to those obtained with
Brown's opacity tubes, by Major Cunningham and Sub-Assistant Surgeon
Timothy.
(5) The value of the Formol Gel test for syphilis, by Civil Assistant
Surgeon S. Ramakrishnan. (Published in the Indian Medical Gazette, dated June
1922.)
(6) The value of culture of the peripheral blood in kala-azar as a diagnostic
procedure, by Civil Assistant Surgeon T. Sitapati Ayyar. (Published in the Indian
Medical Gazette, June 1922.)
(7) The inapplicability of the Mills Reincke Phenomenon to Indian condi-
tions, by Mr. T. N. S. Raghavachari, B.A., Bacteriological Assistant. (Accepted
for publication in the Indian Journal of Medical Research.)
A synopsis of these papers is given in Appendix II.
During the course of the meeting the King Institute was visited by the
the members of the Congress who had thus an opportunity of seeing the work
which was being done there.
3. Miss E. Ivatts, Lady Apothecary, was placed on special duty at the King
Institute from 1st December 1921 to 28th February 1922, in order to assist in
the investigation into filariasis which has been carried on in Saidapet Municipality
during the year. The outcome of this research was the paper read at the Medical
Research Section mentioned above.