Unseen Enemy : the English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617-1847.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781443863094
- 1443863092
- 1306923514
- 9781306923514
- 1443861359
- 9781443861359
- Medical care -- India -- Bengal -- History
- Medicine -- India -- Bengal -- History
- Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- Medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- Medicine -- History
- Medicine -- History -- 17th century
- Medicine -- History -- 18th century
- History of Medicine
- Colonialism -- history
- History, 17th Century
- History, 18th Century
- History, 19th Century
- Physicians -- history
- United Kingdom
- India
- Médecine -- Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) -- Histoire
- Médecine -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire
- Médecine -- Histoire
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- history of medicine
- History of science
- Asian history
- History of medicine
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- Medical care
- Medicine
- Great Britain
- India -- Bengal
- 610.9 23
- R653.I4
- 2014 J-693
- WZ 70 JI4
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Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect knowledge of physiology, often failed to treat. This book looks at clinical observations and theories by several English doctors, who, with the encouragement of the East India Company, strove to address these ailments. This enthralling story begins with John Woodall, who never voyaged to India but equipped the surgeons' chests aboard ships sailing there, and ends with James Esda ...
Includes bibliographical references.
English.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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