Dr Nusserwanji Surveyor’s laboratory research into germs and disease helped identify the bubonic plague of 1896 in Bombay
Vispi S. Khambatta and Dr Shubhada Pandya
In 1907 the respected British Medical Journal carried an editorial "British Medicine in India” wherein Governor-General William Bentinck (1774-1839) was lauded for promoting education on English lines for aspirational upper class Indians. The Journal (May 25, 1907) identified Western medicine as an exemplary "civilizing influence.”
Grant Medical College founded in Bombay in 1845 was explicitly "designed to impart through a scientific (italics added) system the benefits of medical instruction to the natives of Western India,” according to Neelkanth G. Talwalkar’s Men and Memorabilia of Grant Medical College and J. J. Group of Hospitals.
That Western medicine was seeded in hospitable soil and......