Unseen enemy : the English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617-1847 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bhattacharya, Sudip, author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Description:	xii, 245 pages
Language:	English
Subject:	Medicine -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century. Medical care -- India -- Bengal -- History. Medical care -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History. Medicine -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History. History of Medicine -- Great Britain. History of Medicine -- India. Colonialism -- history -- Great Britain. Colonialism -- history -- India. History, 17th Century -- Great Britain. History, 17th Century -- India. History, 18th Century -- Great Britain. History, 18th Century -- India. History, 19th Century -- Great Britain. History, 19th Century -- India. Physicians -- history -- Great Britain. Physicians -- history -- India. Medical care. Medicine. Great Britain. India -- Bengal. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10075745

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ISBN:	9781443861359 1443861359
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245).

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Death and Disease among Europeans in Colonial Bengal
Chapter 1. John Woodall and his Surgeon's Chest
Chapter 2. Medicine and the Arrival and Settlement of the English in Bengal
Chapter 3. Three Surgeons and the Patna Massacre
Chapter 4. John Zephaniah Holwell: Surgeon, Councillor, Governor
Chapter 5. Francis Balfour and the Sol-Lunar Influence in Fevers
Chapter 6. The Brunonian Doctrine in Calcutta
Chapter 7. John Peter Wade, the Surgeon Historian
Chapter 8. James Johnson and the Influence of the Tropics on European Constitutions
Chapter 9. William Twining, from Nova Scotia to Calcutta
Chapter 10. Frederick Harrington Brett and European Surgery in Bengal
Chapter 11. Mesmerism and Surgery in Bengal: James Esdaile
Bibliography

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