What the Indian Medical Service Has Done for India

made a complaint against the members of the Service that they have done little, or have not done enough, research work in medicine, especially in tropical disease. The present time appears to be appropriate for an attempt to record what the Service, through the agency of its members, has done, during the past two centuries, towards the improvement of administration; the advancement, and, indeed, the introduction of the treatment of disease in India; the extension of economic projects ; in short, the amelioration of the conditions under which the great majority of the population of the country live and move and have their being. In the subjoined account of what has been achieved in India by members of the medical profession, employed and paid by Government for the public service, there is nothing new.