An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
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Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. 2 vols.London: J. Hatchard & Son, 1844.Lathyrism, a disease occuring in India, and parts of Africa, was known to Hippocrates. Sleeman, an Indian official and major general who presided over the suppression of Thuggee, had no special knowledge of medicine, but gave the first detailed account of lathyrism in vol. 1. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, TOXICOLOGY Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/2548 |