Ship's Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company : Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
The ship's surgeons in the employ of the Dutch East India Company were responsible for the healthcare on board the ships and in the hospitals founded by the Company in a vast geographical area expanding from South Africa to Japan. They were not highly regarded by their contemporaries, who criti...
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Leiden University Press
2009
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