Medical History of British India

The Medical History of British India: Disease Prevention and Public Health collection at the National Library of Scotland consists of official publications varying from short reports to multi-volume histories related to disease, public health and medical research between circa 1850 to 1920. These publications are historical sources for a period which witnessed the transition from a humoral to a biochemical tradition, which was based on laboratorial science and document the important breakthroughs in bacteriology, parasitology and the developments of vaccines in a colonial context