The Bombay Tropical School

A Note on the Early History of Grant Medical College, Bombay

In the year 1835, Sir Robert Grant, shortly after he became Governor of Bombay, directed his attention to the desirability of establishing" a medical school in this Presidency. He was deeply interested in this subject. As a preliminary measure he encouraged the spirit of scientific enquiry amongst the medical officers of the Government, and so the " Medical and Physical Society of Bombay" had i...

Bombay Medical Council

1. Read?Letter dated Kolhapur, 21st August, 1917, from Sub-Assistant Surgeon Raghunath Vaman Bapat, stating that an Ayurvedic medical school has been started in Kolhapur; that the promoters of the same desire to impart elementary knowledge of western medicine to tlieir students, and have asked men practising western medicine whether they would undertake to coach their students in the elementary...

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Appraisals of Discriminatory Events Among Adult Offspring of Indian Residential School Survivors: The Influences of Identity Centrality and Past Perceptions of Discrimination

Legends in urology.

I was born in a small village near Bombay, India. I was the oldest of six children and I attended a missionary high school run by the Church of Scotland. My family lived in a small apartment in Bombay where sometimes we had little food. My parents constantly instilled in us that the path to stability and success was through higher education, unequivocal faith, determination, discipline, and per...

Histological and functional study of gastric mucosa in tropical sprue.

In patients with tropical sprue studied both in Puerto Rico and South India, histological changes in gastric mucosa were noted in 67% and 90% of patients respectively (Floch, Thomassen, Cox, and Sheehy, 1963; Vaish, Sampathkumar, Jacob, and Baker, 1965). Besides histological abnormalities, a significant reduction in gastric acid output was also observed. However, these studies did not exclude t...