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History of medicine in context

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D. : an eighteenth-century medical diary and manual / John Buchanan ; edited by Paul Kopperman.

Plague hospitals : public health for the city in early modern Venice / by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

<p>"Garcia de Orta's book, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the main town and capital of the Portuguese empire in the East. A Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, Orta lived in Goa for almost thirty years. The port city was an important but remote territory in the Portuguese empire, occupying a prominent role in the circuit of trade and exchange of goods such as botanical simples, drugs and spices. Orta's Colloquies presents fifty-nine dialogues concerning more than eighty different drugs, fruits, spices, minerals and medical preparations, all of them either native to India or observed in use there during the author's time in the territory. The book had a market in Asia but was particularly valuable to a European audience, circulating widely in Portugal and Spain, as well as providing the basis for adaptations, commentaries and editions in various languages"--Provided by publisher.</p>

Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.

Florence Nightingale and the health of the Raj / Jharna Gourlay.

xviii, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.

The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence / Helen King.

Medicine and charity in Georgian Bath : a social history of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830 / Anne Borsay.

Melancholy and the care of the soul : religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England / Jeremy Schmidt.

The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760 / Roger King.

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'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D. : an eighteenth-century medical diary and manual / John Buchanan ; edited by Paul Kopperman.

Plague hospitals : public health for the city in early modern Venice / by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.

Florence Nightingale and the health of the Raj / Jharna Gourlay.

Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.

The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence / Helen King.

Medicine and charity in Georgian Bath : a social history of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830 / Anne Borsay.

Melancholy and the care of the soul : religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England / Jeremy Schmidt.

The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760 / Roger King.

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'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D. : an eighteenth-century medical diary and manual / John Buchanan ; edited by Paul Kopperman.

Plague hospitals : public health for the city in early modern Venice / by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Contraception, colonialism and commerce : birth control in South India, 1920-1940 / Sarah Hodges.

Florence Nightingale and the health of the Raj / Jharna Gourlay.

Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.

The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence / Helen King.

Medicine and charity in Georgian Bath : a social history of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830 / Anne Borsay.

Melancholy and the care of the soul : religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England / Jeremy Schmidt.

The making of the dentiste, c. 1650-1760 / Roger King.

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