CONTENTS: List of Illustrations, Foreword by Deepak Kumar, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, 1. Medical Empire Builders and the Gestation of Hospital Medicine, 2. The Beginnings of the Native Medical Institution, 3. The Abolition of the Native Medical Institution and the Beginning of the Calcutta Medical College, 4. From Inception to the First Dissection, 5. From the First Dissection to the First Examination, 6. Further Progress of the Calcutta Medical College and the Emergence of Modern Public Health, 7. Reorganization, Recognition and the First Educational Sojourn of India, 8. The Transition: from Calcutta Medical College to the Medical College and Hospitals, 9. Confronting Hurdles: Female Medical Education and Nursing, 10. Early Momentum and Later Stasis in Medical Research: The Suez Canal, Germ Theory and Commerical Interests, Conclusion, Appendix: G.O. No. 28 of 28 January 1835, Bibliography, Index.