Inspector-General Sir James Ranald Martin, CB, FRS

Abstract

THE name of Sir James Ranald Martin is known to few, and the details of his career to still fewer. It is for this reason that the volume before us will be welcomed by all interested in the birth and development of the medical profession, and sanitary science in India. Sir Ranald Martin left sanitary science, in the broadest sense of the term, and the position of the medical officer in India, in positions very different to those in which he found them. It would have been difficult—indeed, impossible—to have found a better biographer than Sir Joseph Fayrer, whose intimate knowledge of all that concerns medicine in India is absolutely unrivalled. So far as we are aware, the rôle of biographer is new to Sir Joseph; we can only say that from apparently scanty material he has constructed a biography accurate, interesting and instructive.

Inspector-General Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B., F.R.S.

By Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, &c. Pp. xvi + 203; plate i. (London: Innes and Co., 1897.)