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62: 54: 144:. From March to October 1888 he served with the Upper Burma Operational Force. Falling ill again, he was sent to England for a year to recover. He received his doctorate (MD) entitled 'On the nature of malaria and its prophylaxsis' in 1889 and returned to India in November 1889. Continuing in the army, he became district surgeon to the 164:, where there was a plague outbreak. On an arbitrary selection basis he inoculated exactly half of the village and (using Littlejohn principles) observed the results – obtaining an accurate (if perhaps inhumane) result of the effectiveness of the vaccine (proving it 90% effective). 235:
where he was an elder and Secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee. His church St George's United Free, was the impressive domed church on the west side of
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who worked in the Indian Medical Service. As director of the plague research laboratory, he conducted experiments on plague vaccines along with
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colonel. In May 1911 he became surgeon general for the Madras district. In 1913 he was created honorary physician to
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in 1903. In 1904 he became director of the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory and in 1910 was raised to
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district. He returned to the University of Edinburgh 1895/6 to take a course on public health from
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but lost most of his senior and experienced officers who were sent on medical duties elsewhere.
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in south Edinburgh. The grave lies in the north-west section under a large tree.
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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In April 1899 he was made director of the Plague Research Laboratory in
156:, what would now be a highly controversial experiment in the village of 384: 41:'s analytical techniques on a large scale, demonstrating the value of 228: 145: 70: 210: 180: 152:. Returning to India in 1896 early in 1898 he undertook along with 137: 129: 125: 206:. He served as the Society's Vice-President from 1921 to 1924. 168: 109: 105: 239:. He was Secretary of the church's Foreign Mission Committee. 334:"Major-General William Burney Bannerman, C.S.I., M.D., D.Sc" 117: 26: 270:
Production of Alkali by Plague Bacillus in Liquid Media
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and went to Madras to recover. He was then posted to
411: 492: 220:He remained in Madras for the duration of the 104:he served as a surgeon from 1883. Training at 473:. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. 376:On the nature of malaria and its prophylaxsis 338:Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 397:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 231:in 1918 and spent much time linked to the 77:and David Anne Douglas (sic), daughter of 541:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 349: 275:Scientific Memoirs of Government in India 327: 325: 323: 321: 319: 317: 315: 60: 52: 69:He was born at 7 Clarendon Crescent in 493: 372: 331: 128:epidemic there. In 1886 he contracted 536:20th-century Scottish medical doctors 531:19th-century Scottish medical doctors 521:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 312: 245:He is buried with his parents in the 16:Scottish military surgeon (1858–1924) 516:People educated at Edinburgh Academy 460: 458: 309:Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1858 260:Concerning Animals and Other Matters 242:He died at home on 3 February 1924. 65:The Bannerman grave, Grange Cemetery 379:(Thesis). University of Edinburgh. 373:Burney, Bannerman, William (1889). 186:In 1902 he elected a fellow of the 13: 566:Medical doctors from British India 14: 577: 561:Military personnel from Edinburgh 455: 37:. He was one of the first to use 265:Serum Therapy of Plague in India 112:in May 1884 initially posted at 551:Indian Medical Service officers 252: 213:created him a Companion of the 57:Clarendon Crescent in Edinburgh 546:Burials at the Grange Cemetery 511:Medical doctors from Edinburgh 405: 366: 303: 233:United Free Church of Scotland 1: 556:British public health doctors 296: 85:then studied medicine at the 526:British Indian Army generals 421:Journal of Medical Biography 412:Hawgood, Barbara J. (2007). 7: 73:on 6 July 1858, the son of 10: 582: 215:Order of the Star of India 188:Royal Society of Edinburgh 79:David Douglas, Lord Reston 351:10.1017/S0370164600021064 289:(1862–1946), daughter of 287:Helen Brodie Cowan Watson 280: 200:Sir Thomas Richard Fraser 116:. After some training in 433:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-59 21:William Burney Bannerman 150:Henry Harvey Littlejohn 87:University of Edinburgh 48: 332:Liston, W. G. (1925). 204:Charles Hunter Stewart 102:Indian Medical Service 66: 58: 190:. His proposers were 81:. He was educated at 64: 56: 196:Alexander Crum Brown 89:, graduating with a 285:In 1889 he married 171:. 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Index

CSI
FRSE
military surgeon
Waldemar Haffkine
Henry Littlejohn
inoculation


Edinburgh
Rev James Bannerman
David Douglas, Lord Reston
Edinburgh Academy
University of Edinburgh
MB ChB
British Army
Indian Medical Service
Netley
Bombay
Secunderabad
Urdu
Baluchistan
cholera
malaria
Tiruchirapalli
Mandalay
Pyintha
Mangalore
Henry Harvey Littlejohn
Waldemar Haffkine
Undhera

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