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The '''''Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta''''' was a society of British officials, mostly physicians, formed on March 1, 1823. The society published a quarterly journal<ref>Scudder, S. H. (1879) Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, including the transactions of learned societies in the natural, physical and mathematical sciences, 1633-1876. Oxford University. p.253 [http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2925864 Online digitised version at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (Version June 2004)]</ref> and met at the [[Asiatic Society]].<ref>At First in Calcutta [http://www.catchcal.com/kaleidoscope/at_first_calcutta/m.asp Website]</ref> The journal published articles on diseases prevailing in India and their links with environment and sanitation. Prominent members included Sir [[James Ranald Martin]] who was instrumental in publishing medico-topographical reports of [[British India]] and establishing links between environment and health, and [[deforestation]]<ref>Grove, R. H. (1997) Ecology, Climate and Empire The White House Press, UK, pp. 237 {{ISBN|1-874267-18-9}}</ref> and [[William Brooke O'Shaughnessy]], who published one of the first medical uses of [[marijuana]] in the journal of the society.<ref>O'Shaughnessy, W.B. (1839) Case of Tetanus, Cured by a Preparation of Hemp (the Cannabis indica.), ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal'' 8, 1838-40, 462-469 [http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html Available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618022357/http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/gunjah.html |date=2008-06-18 }}</ref> There are few records of the journal after 1857.<br />
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The society was also referred to as ''Medical and Physical Society of Bengal'' and ''Calcutta Medical and Physical Society''.<ref>Record of the Society from Scholarly Societies Project [http://www.scholarly-societies.org/1820_1829.html Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704163809/http://www.scholarly-societies.org/1820_1829.html |date=2008-07-04 }}</ref><br />
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==Notable members==<br />
*[[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]]<br />
*[[Henry John Carter]]<ref><br />
{{cite journal<br />
| date = 22 June 1895<br />
| title = This week's Obituary<br />
| journal = [[British Medical Journal]]<br />
| volume = 1<br />
| issue = 1799<br />
| pages = 1395<br />
| doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.1799.1395<br />
| pmc = 2510234<br />
}}</ref><br />
*[[James Ranald Martin]]<br />
*[[William Brooke O'Shaughnessy]]<br />
*[[Horace Hayman Wilson]]<br />
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