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India Papers > Medicine - Drugs > Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895 > Volume III > (239) Volume 3, Page 235

(239) Volume 3, Page 235
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74552188
Description	Reports by Mr. B.C. Basu, Assistant to the Director of the Department of Land Records and Agriculture, Bengal, on the spontaneous growth of the wild hemp plant in the districts of Bhagalpur and Purnea, cont.

Person / organisation:	Basu, B. C. [Author]
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Volume III
Description	Volume 3: Appendices. Miscellaneous.
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Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895
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Description	Report is based on research conducted August 1893-August 1894. The Commission interviewed nearly 2000 witnesses from medical officers to missionaries in 30 cities across India. Covers in detail the effect of hemp drugs (‘ganja’) on physical, mental and moral wellbeing.
Shelfmark	IP/DA.1
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1894 [Date published] 1893-1894 [Probable date of survey]
Places:	Asia > India > West Bengal > Calcutta (inhabited place) [Place published] Asia > India > Himachal Pradesh > Simla (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Research (documents) Official reports Boards of trustees Government policy Administration Drug abuse Customs (social concepts) Demographics Hemp Marijuana Narcotics Drug addiction
Person / organisation:	India. Hemp Drugs Commission [Attributed name] India. Superintendent of Government Printing [Publisher] India. Government Central Printing Office [Printer] Young, William Mackworth, Sir, 1840-1924 [Author]
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Medicine - Drugs
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Description	The Drugs collection consists of 9 volumes from British India, dating from 1867 to 1903. Extensive research on hemp and opium usage, cultivation of cinchona trees and reports from Nilgiris plantation. Includes medicinal plants. Chloroform anaesthesia research described plus clinical trials and debates on its safety.

Subject / content:	Medicine (discipline) Medicines Health care Research (function)
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India Papers
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Description	The India Papers collection contains publications of the central (Imperial) Government and many Indian states. Most states came under British rule. Much of the collection dates from between the post-Mutiny re-organisation of the Indian Government and Indian Independence in 1947. Some items published in London by John Murray.
Shelfmark	India Papers
Additional NLS resources:	Medical History of British India website

Places:	Asia > India (nation) [Place in text] Asia > Pakistan (nation) [Place in text] Asia > Myanmar (nation) [Place in text]
Subject / content:	Indian (South Asian)
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