Dibrugarh in year 1910, along with two X-Ray machine (One 10MA and another 15MA). The X-Ray Machines were bought from England, 15 years after the discovery of X-Rays by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895–96. These two were the first X-Ray machines in India. The college is situated in the outskirts of city and set in the midst of tea estates. Building renovation and new building construction projects is underway, in joint collaboration with the North Eastern Council and the State Government of Assam, to upgrade the college to a premier medical institution. The college boast some of the best teachers
Anton Wilhelm Plaz Naturforscher. Anton Wilhelm Plaz Anton Wilhelm Plaz (1 January 1708, Leipzig – 26 February 1784, Leipzig) was a German physician and botanist. From 1723 he studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig and Halle, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1728. In 1733 he became an associate professor of botany at Leipzig, where afterwards, he successively served as a full professor of botany (1749–54), physiology (1754–58), anatomy and surgery (1758), pathology (1758–73) and therapy (1773–84). From 1773 to 1784 he was dean to the medical faculty at the university. He was a member of the Römisch Kaiserlichen Akademie