CUNNINGHAM, David Douglas
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Leprosy in India. A report.Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1877.The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of the Indian Raj in 1858, the colonial authorities began to assume a more professional and scientific attitude towards public health. The severity and geographic distribution of leprosy in India was unknown until it was surveyed in the British Indian Census of 1872, the statistics of which prominently feature in this report. Includes two chromolithographed disease maps. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy |
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On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil.Sci. Med. mem. Off. Army India, [1884], 1, 21-31, 1885.Cunningham saw and described bodies in Delhi boil; these were almost certainly Leishman–Donovan bodies. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, DERMATOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Sandfly-Borne Diseases › Leishmaniasis |