The principal diseases of India, briefly described : with hints on the duties of medical officers in that country / by Charles Alex. Gordon.

  • Gordon, Charles Alexander, 1821-1899.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The principal diseases of India, briefly described : with hints on the duties of medical officers in that country / by Charles Alex. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of his department to the Superintending Surgeon, who is always a Company's officer. Medicines and Instruments are obtained by half- yearly indents as in England, and Hospital clothing is served out once a year, that is, in October; but before the Superintending Surgeon will pass the indents for these stores, he requires that a Committee shall report that the old are unserviceable, and have been rendered so by fair wear and tear, and not by carelessness on the part of those who have had charge of them. It is therefore advisable when any arti- cles have been lost, or an accident occurs, to re- port the circumstance to the Commanding Officer, who will order a Committee to assemble and inquire into it. Committees are so common in India, that it would appear as if an officer were capable of giving an opinion on every possible article, whether medi- cines, clothes, tents, boats, camels, elephants, roads, in fact every thing. The object of referring matters to the decision of a Committee, is to remove the re- sponsibility from a particular individual, although many amusing anecdotes are related in India of the decisions of such committees: for instance I have been told by an officer, that he was once a member of one appointed to examine some commissariat camels, the whole of which were rejected because they had marks of ^^broken knees.^^