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The '''''Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta''''' was a society of British officials, mostly physicians, formed on March 1, 1823. The society published a quarterly journal<ref>Scudder, S. H. (1879) Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. Oxford University. p.253 [http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2925864 Online digitised version at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (Version June 2004)]</ref> and met at the [[Asiatic Society]].<ref>At First in Calcutta [http://www.catchcal.com/kaleidoscope/at_first_calcutta/m.asp Website]</ref> The journal published articles on diseases prevailing in India and their links with environment and sanitation. Prominent members included Sir [[James Ranald Martin]] who was instrumental in publishing medico-topographical reports of [[British India]] and establishing links between environment and health, and [[deforestation]]<ref>Grove, R. H. (1997) Ecology, Climate and Empire The White House Press, UK, pp. 237 {{ISBN|1-874267-18-9}}</ref> and [[William Brooke O'Shaughnessy]], who published one of the first medical uses of [[marijuana]] in the journal of the society.<ref>O'Shaughnessy, W.B. (1839) Case of Tetanus, Cured by a Preparation of Hemp (the Cannabis indica.), ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal'' 8, 1838-40, 462-469 [http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html Available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618022357/http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html |date=2008-06-18 }}</ref> There are few records of the journal after 1857.
The '''''Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta''''' was a society of British officials, mostly physicians, formed on March 1, 1823. The society published a quarterly journal<ref>Scudder, S. H. (1879) Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. Oxford University. p.253 [http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2925864 Online digitised version at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (Version June 2004)]</ref> and met at the [[Asiatic Society]].<ref>At First in Calcutta [http://www.catchcal.com/kaleidoscope/at_first_calcutta/m.asp Website]</ref> The journal published articles on diseases prevailing in India and their links with environment and sanitation. Prominent members included Sir [[James Ranald Martin]] who was instrumental in publishing medico-topographical reports of [[British India]] and establishing links between environment and health, and [[deforestation]]<ref>Grove, R. H. (1997) Ecology, Climate and Empire The White House Press, UK, pp. 237 {{ISBN|1-874267-18-9}}</ref> and [[William Brooke O'Shaughnessy]], who published one of the first medical uses of [[marijuana]] in the journal of the society.<ref>O'Shaughnessy, W.B. (1839) Case of Tetanus, Cured by a Preparation of Hemp (the Cannabis indica.), ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal'' 8, 1838-40, 462-469 [http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html Available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618022357/http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html |date=2008-06-18 }}</ref> There are few records of the journal after 1857.


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The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta was a society of British officials, mostly physicians, formed on March 1, 1823. The society published a quarterly journal[1] and met at the Asiatic Society.[2] The journal published articles on diseases prevailing in India and their links with environment and sanitation. Prominent members included Sir James Ranald Martin who was instrumental in publishing medico-topographical reports of British India and establishing links between environment and health, and deforestation[3] and William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, who published one of the first medical uses of marijuana in the journal of the society.[4] There are few records of the journal after 1857.

The society was also referred to as Medical and Physical Society of Bengal and Calcutta Medical and Physical Society.[5]

Notable members[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Scudder, S. H. (1879) Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. Oxford University. p.253 Online digitised version at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (Version June 2004)
  2. ↑ At First in Calcutta Website
  3. ↑ Grove, R. H. (1997) Ecology, Climate and Empire The White House Press, UK, pp. 237 ISBN 1-874267-18-9
  4. ↑ O'Shaughnessy, W.B. (1839) Case of Tetanus, Cured by a Preparation of Hemp (the Cannabis indica.), Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal 8, 1838-40, 462-469 Available online Archived 2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Record of the Society from Scholarly Societies Project Website Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "This week's Obituary". British Medical Journal. 1 (1799): 1395. 22 June 1895. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1799.1395. PMC 2510234.
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