Title Unseen Enemy : the English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617-1847.

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Summary	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 ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject	Medical care -- India -- Bengal -- History.
	Medical care.
	India -- Bengal.
	History.
	Medicine -- India -- Bengal -- History.
	Medicine.
	Medical care -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
	Great Britain.
	Colonies.
	Medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Medical care.
Other Form:	Print version: Bhattacharya, Sudip. Unseen Enemy : The English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617 - 1847. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443861359
ISBN	9781443863094 (electronic book)
	1443863092 (electronic book)
	9781443861359