James Ranald Martin
Sir James Ranald Martin (12 May 1796 โ 27 November 1874)Honourable East India Company and was instrumental in publicising the effects of deforestation, and finding links between human and environmental health.
Early life
Born in the
commission of assistant-surgeon through the interest of his uncle, Sir John MacDonald, the Adjutant-General to the Forces.[2]
Work
He reached
Calcutta in June 1817 by ship, the Lord Hungerford, and reported for duty with the Bengal service on 2 December 1817.[2]
In 1818 he served the
Calcutta pioneered a genre of works that explored linkages between climate, public health and development. He was made the President of the East India Company's medical board in 1843. In 1856, he substantially re-wrote and extended the then well-known treatise on diseases in the tropics, Influence of Tropical Climates originally authored by James Johnson.[3]
He was also appointed as a member of the Sanitary Commission and contributed to the report of the Commission published in 1863.
British India through the establishment of Forest Departments and the Indian Forest Service
.
Notes
- ISBN 0-313-32280-5
- ^ a b c Biographical sketch in the London Lancet
- ^ Harrison, M. (1992) Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century India The British Journal for the History of Science 25:3, p.302
- ^ Hume Jr., John Chandler (1986) Colonialism and Sanitary Medicine: The Development of Preventive Health Policy in the Punjab, 1860 to 1900. Modern Asian Studies. 20(4):703-724.
- ^ Martin, R. (1836) The sanitary conditions of Calcutta
- ^ Stebbing, E.P (1922)The forests of India vol. 1, pp. 72โ81
Sources
- Grove, R. H. (1997) Ecology, Climate and Empire The White House Press, UK, pp. 237
- Sir Joseph Fayrer, Life of the Inspector General Sir James Ranald Martin (London, 1897) D.N.B., 12, pp. I 165โ6.
External links
- The Influence of tropical climates on European constitutions (1856)
- Mark Harrison - Knowing the country
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