Gopaul Chunder Roy India

Biography of Gopaul Chunder Roy

G. C. Roy's Burdwan Fever, London 1876
G. C. Roy's Burdwan Fever, London 1876

Gopaul Chunder Roy, FRCS, from Calcutta was the first Indian student to graduate at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a MD in 1871.

As well as publishing extensively in medical journals, such as the Indian Medical Gazette, Roy was a medical officer in Burdwan, a teacher of medicine at Nagpur Medical School, and a Surgeon in the Bengal Army, when he died in 1887.

His book on Burdwan fever, first published in 1876, is still in print today, "The causes, symptoms and treatment of Burdwan fever, or, The epidemic fever of Lower Bengal."

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  • R8/1/4 Matriculation Album

Summary

Gopaul Chunder Roy
Died 1887.
GU Degree: MD, 1871;
University Link: Alumnus, Graduate
Occupation categories: surgeons
English snippet: The first Indian graduate of the University of Glasgow
Record last updated: 22nd Oct 2012

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India India, West Bengal, Calcutta
Place of Birth

India India, West Bengal, Calcutta
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