Unseen Enemy : the English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617-1847.
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,...
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |