List of Surgeons in India in 1749

classes serving at the Company's different Settlements in India arc in existence. The oldest such list which I have ever seen referred to, for I have not myself seen the actual list, is one enumerating the Company's servants serving on the Coast (Madras), and in the Bay (Bengal), in 1652 ; quoted in Yule's notes to Hedge's Diary, Vol. III> P196. This list includes two Medical Officers : At Madraspatam, Edward Whiting, Chyrurgeon. In Pegu, Samuell Archer, Chyrurgeon. The list given below is, however, I believe, the oldest list which gives the names of all the Company's Medical Officers serving in the East. It cannot be called a list of the Indian Medical Service, for that service was not formally constituted until 1st January 1764 ; but to all intents and purposes, it is such a list. This list appears to have been originally compiled in the India Office in 1740 or 1750. It is now classified as " Home Series Miscellaneous, 1758." The original list has been kept up to date, by marginal notes on the left-hand side, by some official in the India Office, for several years, certainly up to 1753.