Introduction Lecture DELIVERED AT THE ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL, FORT PITT, CHATHAM,

The Army Medical School at Netley

Army Medical School, Netley

Chloroform. Part of a Lecture Delivered at the Medical College

some important practical question, and this year I propose to address you on the subject of chloroform, which is one of great practical and physiological interest. Those of you who read the medical journals may remember that not long ago, during a discussion which took place regarding the relative value of chloroform and ether, the use of chloroform was freely condemned by many medical men, and...

School Medical Inspections *Being a lecture delivered to the Women's Medical Service Congress at New Delhi on 17th December, 1940.

The British, the Indians, and smallpox: what actually happened at Fort Pitt in 1763?

An entrenched part of the multicultural canon can be summed up by quoting from a book intended for undergraduate college students: "In the 1760s the British at Fort Pitt gave blankets from the smallpox hospital to Delaware Indians as a form of germ warfare."' The story has been repeated time and again and has now become dogma, or so it seems. This essay will reexamine this familiar tale and wha...