Medicine as natural history. Climate, fever, and medicine before 1700 ; "Accidents of the air" : Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics ; The medicine of warm climates ; Pathology, physiology, and race -- Tropical therapeutics. Inflamed bodies ; Exotics and antiseptics ; Empire of experiment ; A therapeutic revolution -- Ills of empire. Invalids and entrepreneurs ; The voyager returns ; Albion's coast is sick ; The prospect of invasion
Summary
'Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire' explores the impact of commercial and imperial expansion on British medicine from the late 17th century to the early 19th century
