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14 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE "The Board are of opinion that the Services performed by M' Castarede entitle him to the Consideration of Government, and as those Services are certified in a Satisfactory Manner from the foregoing Papers, it is Agreed that they be rewarded by a Donation of Pagodas 500, to be paid by the Military Paymaster General.

"With respect to the idea suggested of appointing M' Castarede a Supernumerary Surgeon, the Board observe that the late Orders of the Court of Directors, regarding Medical Appointments absolutely prohibit their adopting the above Recommendation.

"Agreed that the above be communicated to Brigadier General Horne."

Jean Carere, a Frenchman, was in the service of Muhammad Yusuf, Governor of Madura, during the siege of that place by the EngUsh in 1764. He deserted to the English, along with Captain Riquet, on 26th Feb., 1764, was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 13th Aug., 1764, became Surgeon on 20th April, 1767, and died in March, 1780.

A Frenchman, Jean Baptiste de St. Hilaire, was Physician to Bakr AH Khan, Governor of Vellore, and nephew of Nawab Saadat-UUah in 1716 ; and afterwards was Uving in Madras.

In the Madras Country Correspondence for 1740 it is recorded that a Dr. Gordon, Surgeon to Mahfuz Khan, eldest son of the Nawab of Arcot, had confined an Englishman there. Gordon is again mentioned in 1748, as conducting affairs for the Company in these parts, and as imprisoned at Kadalur.*

Many other European surgeons were from time to time in the service of the Nawab of Arcot, or Nawab of the Karnatik, as he was also caUed. Nawab Muhammad Ah, Nawab Wallajah, succeeded Nawab Anwaruddin in 1749, and reigned forty-six years, dying on 13th Oct., 1795, aged seventy-eight. His second and favourite son, Amir-ul-Umara, predeceased him in 1788. His eldest son, Umdat-ul-Umara, succeeded him in 1795. When Seringapatam was taken in 1799, papers were found there, which were considered to prove a treasonable correspondence between Tipu and the Nawab, and the Madras Council determined to dethrone him. Umdat-ul-Umara was then seriously ill, and no steps were taken until after his death in 1801. In that year Azim-ud-daulah, son of Amir-ul-Umara, succeeded his uncle as titular Nawab, and was granted a large revenue, but the Karnatik was virtually annexed.

Surgeon Alexander BosweU served Nawab Muhammad Ah as