Allen, Frederic Freeman (1825-1888)

General report of the medical and sanitary arrangements in connection with the Right (or Chittagong) Column of the Lushai Expeditionary Force... with a slight description of the country, and vocabulary of the language. Author's holograph MS., with many corrections, of two drafts of the Report.

1872

72 ll.+62 ll. folio. 301/2x201/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1935.

The author, then Surgeon-Major, was Senior Medical Officer of the Column, and was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the C.B. for his services in this Campaign.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).