Biographical notices of medical officers recently deceased.

Date:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Biographical notices of medical officers recently deceased. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEDICAL OFFICERS RECENTLY DECEASED. GEORGE GREEN SITLS13URY, Esq., M. D. AVe are convinced that a large circle of our brethren in India and elsewhere will share the feelings of affectionate grief with which we put on record the demise of the Nestor of the Bengal Medical Service. The late Doctor Spilsbury’s career extended over a period of no less than forty-six years’ active service in India. Until his last fatal illness, he was often heard with gratitude to dwell on his singular good fortune in never having been under the necessity of applying for a single day’s leave of absence. His excellent constitution was strength- ened by a singularly temperate mode of living. During six months from the 1st of April, Dr. Spilsbury’s fare was rigidly vegetable, and his beverage was water. With the approach of the cold season he revert- ed to a more generous diet, yet temperate withal. Immediately after passing his examination, Dr. Spilsbury was appoint- ed Civil Surgeon of Sierra Leone, from whence after a residence of'some 15 months he returned to England and obtained a commission as Assis- tant Surgeon on the East India Company’s Bengal Establishment. His first commission was dated the 17th August 1811, and in the month of October following we find among the list of passengers on the good ship “ Baring,” the “young Assistant Surgeon,” donning in Calcutta for the first time the identical full dress uniform which after a lapse of 46 years, the Physician General loved to exhibit to the generation of 1857. During the years of 1814-15-16, Dr. Spilsbury served throughout the war with Nepal, for which he was decorated with a medal. After hav- ing taken part with his Regiment in the siege of Ilattrass, he served in 1817-18 in the Centre Division of the grand army under the command of the Marquis of Hastings. In 1819 he proceeded with the Field Force sent into the Puekmurree Hills against the ex-Rajah of Nagpore, after which he was present at the siege and capture of Asseerghur. These eventful years of military services were followed by quieter times during which Dr. Spilsbury filled the office of Civil Surgeon of Jubbul-