CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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Names of Medical Officers.
Title of literary contributions.
Names of Journals.
Captain C. A. Lane, I.M.S., Resident
Physician, Medical College Hospi-
tal.
Deaths under chloroform
... “ Lancet, ” vol. I.
Assistant Surgeon Kali Mahan
Sen, Officiating Resident Medical
Officer, Police Hospital ; Calcutta.
Decubitus in diagnosis of diseases
Malaria and mosquito
... “ Vishak Darpan. ”
Diabetes and Mellitus
...
Assistant Surgeon U. N. Brahma-
chari, M.B., House Physician, 1st
Physician’s Ward, Medical College.
A case of ulcerative Eudocarditis ... “ Indian Medical Gazette. ”
Ditto.
“ British Medical Journal.”
A case of Post hemiplegic Althetosis
Ditto
ditto
...
Assistant Surgeon Hem Chander
Sen, M.D., Teacher, Materia
Medica, Campbell Medical School.
Snake venom as a remedial agent ..
“ Vishak Darpan.”
The efficiency of vaccination in
preventing small-pox and plague.
Assistant Surgeon Mrigendra Lal
Mitra, Teacher of Surgery, Camp-
bell Medical School, Sealdah.
Micro-organisms and , their relation
to human life.
Civil Hospital Assistant Girish
Chander Bagchi, attached to
Police Hospital, Calcutta.
Hæmorrhage during pregnancy ..
Caturnine and Ayapana as hæmas-tatics.
Chronic brass poisoning
...
Gall Stone
...
Calmeltes antivenine
...
Translation of Selections from the
proceedings of the Annual Meeting
of the British Medical Associations
and of several articles from English
Medical Journals.
Miss A. White, Lady Doctor, Out-
door Department, Campbell Hos-
pital.
Rare care of malformation of the
anus in a child.
“ Indian Medical Record.”
I regret that the list of contributions above recorded is so small. I am
endeavouring to arrange for the publication of a regular report, or a series of
reports, of professional work which is done in the Calcutta hospitals. Many of the
eminent men who have held appointments in the institutions of the Capital have
written, in addition to large works, important papers on professional subjects,
but as many of these contributions have appeared in comparatively ephemeral
publications, the true value of their work has been underestimated and its
usefulness has been diminished. The material for studying tropical disease is
perhaps unrivalled; hence every effort should be made to record in an adequate
manner the work which I know is being done in it by some of the Medical
Officers of Calcutta. About the year 1822 Drs. Adam and Hare established a
medical and surgical society in Calcutta, and yet at the present day no such
body exists in it, which is, I think, a matter also of regret.
95. Bacteriological Laboratory. —The establishment of the Laboratory was
formally sanctioned by Government in January 1900, but its actual working
began from about the end of April. The work done during the year was
chiefly in connection with the bacteriological examination of cases admitted
into the Medical College Hospital. In a suspected case of malignant postule,
of which a bacteriological diagnosis was urgently required, opinion was given
within half an hour that anthrax bacilli were found to exist. On the strength
of this diagnosis, the malignant postule was removed and the patient recovered.
The bacteriological diagnosis furnished in several cases of suspected typhoid
fever, diphtheria, plague and cholera was also of great assistance to the
Hospital staff.
Specimens were also received from outside during the year. They were
mostly in connection with cases of suspected plague and of cerebro-spinal
meningitis. Specimens in connection with plague were forwarded from
Kurseong, Barisal, Shahabad, Burdwan, Monghyr and Bhagalpur, and three
specimens of water were sent for bacteriological analysis, including one from
the Health Officer of the Port of Calcutta.
At my instance an investigation was undertaken to detect the presence of
tetanus bacilli in specimens of soil taken from jute fields, as well as in specimens