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List Of Indian Medical Service Officers
This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence. A to B C D to G H to L M to S T to W References {{Reflist External linksRoll of the Indian Medical Services, 1614-1930 by Lt.-Col D. G. Crawford Indian Medical Service The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. It served during the two World Wars, and remained in existence until the independence of India in 1947. Many of its officer ... Medicine in the British Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Henry Vandyke Carter
Henry Vandyke Carter (born 22 May 1831, Hull – 4 May 1897, Scarborough) was an English anatomist, surgeon, and anatomical artist most notable for his illustrations of the book ''Gray's Anatomy''. Childhood Henry Vandyke Carter was born on 22 May 1831 in Hull, England, the eldest son of the painter Henry Barlow Carter and mother Eliza Barlow. Soon after, his parents moved to Scarborough, where he grew up. Information on Carter's private life is known in large part due to the diary that his grandmother gave him at age 14 and that he kept for life. His family was also very religious (Protestant) and Carter kept the diary as a kind of spiritual notebook. Early studies He studied at Hull Grammar School but later abandoned his medical studies for economic reasons to pursue pharmacy-surgery. His parents expressed discomfort with the academic and social environment he was in so he transferred to London under the guidance of surgeon John Sawyer and took medical courses at St George' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiraji Cursetji
Major-General Sir Hiraji Jehangir Manekji Cursetji, KCIE, CSI, DSO (14 August 1885 – 26 July 1964) was an Indian military surgeon and general in the British Indian Army during the Second World War. Biography Born in Mumbai (then Bombay), to a prominent Parsi family, Cursetji initially aspired to a cavalry commission in the British Indian Army due to his fondness for riding, but ultimately opted for the Indian Medical Service. He studied at Gonville and Caius Colleges at Cambridge University and at London Hospital before entering the Indian Medical Service as a lieutenant on 27 January 1912. During the First World War, he served in Egypt, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. He was promoted to captain on 27 January 1915. In October 1916, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle of Serbia (5th Class, with swords). As a medical officer attached to the 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs during the Mesopotamian campaign, Captain Cursetji was awarded the DSO on 26 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Douglas Cunningham
David Douglas Cunningham (29 September 1843 – 31 December 1914) was a Scottish doctor and researcher who worked extensively in India on various aspects of public health and medicine. He studied the spread of bacteria and the spores of fungi through the air and conducted research on cholera. In his spare time he also studied the local plants and animals. Life and career Cunningham was born in 1843, in Prestonpans, the third son of Cecilia Margaret Douglas (1813–98), daughter of David Douglas, Lord Reston (1769–1819), the heir of Adam Smith, and her husband the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham (1806–78). He attended the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and graduated with honours in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1867. His brother Robert Oliver Cunningham also became a surgeon and zoologist. He entered the Indian Medical Service in 1868, and was selected to conduct a special enquiry into cholera by the Secretaries of State for India and for War. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirom Grey Crawford
Dirom Grey Crawford (21 July 1857 – 9 December 1942) was an Indian-born British physician and officer of the Indian Medical Service (IMS). He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring in 1911 and returning to serve on hospital ships during the First World War when he was mentioned in dispatches. He wrote a history of the IMS as well as the roll of its members which included biographical details of 6,156 of its officers. Early life and family Dirom Crawford was born in Chinsura, in Bengal, India, on 21 July 1857 to James Alexander Crawford of the Bengal Civil Service and Christina Anne Crawford. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1881 and shortly afterwards joined the IMS. He married Magdalene Leonora and they had children Violet, Charlotte, and William. Career During his career in the Indian Medical Service he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring in 1911. Following the outbreak of the First World War, he rejoined and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crimmin
Colonel John Crimmin (19 March 1859 – 20 February 1945) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He also served as the Hon. Physician to H.M. The King. Details He was 29 years old, and a Surgeon in the Bombay Medical Service, Indian Army during the Karen-Ni Expedition, Burma when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 1 January 1889, in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, Burma (now Myanmar), a lieutenant and four men charged into a large body of the enemy and two men were wounded. Surgeon John Crimmin attended one of them under enemy fire and he then joined the firing line and helped in driving the enemy from small clumps of trees where they had taken shelter. Later while Surgeon Crimmin was attending a wounded man several of the enemy rushed out at him. He thrust his sword through one of them, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Corse Scott
John Corse Scott FRS (born Corse; 12 July 1756 – 12 September 1840) was a Scottish surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, a naturalist, and landowner in Lanarkshire. Life John Corse of Bughtrig was born in 1756, the son of Richard Corse and Marion Stark. The Corses of Bughtrig were a cadet of the family of Carmyle, Lanarkshire. On 1 September 1779, Corse joined the British Navy as a Hospital Mate (loblolly boy) assigned to the South Fencible Regiment and served in that capacity until the regiment was disbanded in April 1783. He was also an Ensign from 1781 to April 1783. He obtained his Certificate of Corporation of Surgeons in 1783. Corse was promoted to Assistant Surgeon on 22 May 1796 and to Surgeon on 22 May 1796. In 1799 his article ''Observations on the different Species of Asiatic Elephants, and their Mode of Dentition'' was published. According to one source, he retired from the Indian Medical Service on 30 July 1800. On 16 January 1800, he was elected F.R.S. In 1800, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robert Cornish
William Robert Cornish (also W. R. Cornish, 1828 – 19 December 1896) was a British physician who served in India for more than thirty years, and became the Surgeon-General—head of medical services—in the Madras Presidency. During the Great Famine of 1876–78, Cornish, then Sanitary Commissioner of Madras, argued for generous famine relief, which put him at odds with Sir Richard Temple, Famine Envoy for the Government of India, who was promoting '' reduced rations''. Some of Cornish's innovations made their way into the Indian Famine Codes of the late 19th century. Education Cornish was born in Butleigh, near Glastonbury in 1828. After picking up some medical skills from local practitioners (in Somerset county), Cornish proceeded to St George's Hospital, London in 1850 for his medical education. At St. George's, he won a scholarship in Anatomy and Materia medica and prizes in Chemistry and Botany. At the end of his medical training, he took the competitive examinatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, also spelled Surjo Kumar Chakraborty ( – 29 September 1874) was the first Indian to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) in 1855 and subsequently became the Professor of Materia Medica at Calcutta Medical College (CMC) in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Orphaned at the age of six, his aspirations for an English education led him to the Hare School and then entry into medicine at the Medical College of Bengal, where, under the guidance of retired professor of anatomy and obstetrics Henry Goodeve and funding from the government, he was one of the first four Brahmin medical students taken to England in 1845 for further medical training. Upon return to India in 1850, despite his achievements being celebrated and supported by some of his British colleagues, he was prohibited from taking up a senior post in the IMS. When the announcement to open the IMS examination to 'all' came in 1854, Chuckerbutty took the oppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickard Christophers
Brevet Colonel Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers (27 November 1873 – 19 February 1978) was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes. Education Christophers was born and raised in Liverpool, the son of Samuel Hunt Christophers and Mary Selina Christophers née Rickard and educated at the Liverpool Institute and University of Liverpool, graduating MB in 1896. Career In 1897, he took part in an Amazonian expedition and in 1898 went to Italy as part of the Malaria Commission, followed by a trip to Africa to study malaria. In 1901, the Malaria Commission moved to India. On his return to England in 1902, he became a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, moving back to India in 1904. In 1910 he was appointed the first Director of the Central Malaria Bureau, coordinating anti-malarial training and research throughout India. He spent World War I on anti-malaria duties in Iraq and in 1919 returned again to India as Director of the Central Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otolaryngologist
Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical and medical management of conditions of the head and neck. Doctors who specialize in this area are called otorhinolaryngologists, otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, or ENT surgeons or physicians. Patients seek treatment from an otorhinolaryngologist for diseases of the ear, nose, throat, base of the skull, head, and neck. These commonly include functional diseases that affect the senses and activities of eating, drinking, speaking, breathing, swallowing, and hearing. In addition, ENT surgery encompasses the surgical management of cancers and benign tumors and reconstruction of the head and neck as well as plastic surgery of the face and neck. Etymology The term is a combination of New Latin combining forms ('' oto-'' + ''rhino-'' + ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta Medical College
Calcutta Medical College, officially Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, is a public medical school and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the oldest existing hospital in Asia. The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by Lord William Bentinck during British Raj as Medical College, Bengal. It is the second oldest medical college to teach Western medicine in Asia after Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry and the first institute to teach in English language. The hospital associated with the college is the largest hospital in West Bengal. The college offers MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training. Ranking The college was ranked 19th among medical colleges in India in 2019 by ''Outlook India''. For the first time Medical College, Kolkata ranked 32nd among Medical Institution by ''National Institutional Ranking Framework'' (NIRF) in 2021. Medical College, Kolkata ranked 43rd among Medical Institution by ''National Institutional Rankin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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