Temulji Bhicaji Nariman

Sir Temulji Bhicaji Nariman RCSEd, also recorded as Tehmulji B. Nariman (3 September 1848 – 1 August 1940), was a obstetrician from Bombay (now Mumbai) who co-founded one of the city's first lying-in hospitals in 1887 and was knighted in 1914 for his work during the plague epidemic in India at the turn of the 19th century.

He headed the maternity hospital for twenty-one years, was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1909 and became president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bombay.

[8] Nariman headed the maternity hospital for twenty one years and joined the Governor's council in 1910.

Among the descriptions of the training and examination arrangements there he noted that the college physicians were often in competition with local "quacks" and unqualified medical practitioners known as vaids and hakims who offered traditional remedies and sometimes were able to claim a success when a patient who was already close to recovery was transferred to their care.

[13][3] He later became a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1922,[14] by which time he claimed to have attended more than 25,000 maternity cases.

Mumbai (Bombay) University
Old Grant Medical College building, 1860