French Travellers’ Treatises on Oriental Diseases and Symptoms: Indo-French Medical History

Dublin Core

Title

French Travellers’ Treatises on Oriental Diseases and Symptoms: Indo-French Medical History

Subject

French Travellers'
Treatises
Oriental Diseases
Indo-French Medical History

Description

French travellers and adventures of the 17th and the 18th centuries had shown immense interest to explore the medical knowledge of the Orient. This article systematically analyzes their observations and evaluation on different diseases, symptoms and effects on patients which helped the travellers and adventurers of the later times by providing medical precautions to be taken before sailing on a voyage to the Orient. This article, based on many translated and un-translated records written in the form of letters, memoirs and travelogues by the French, who visited India, focuses on the varied facets given by them on medical knowledge and history of the Orient. Undoubtedly, the Portuguese and the English travellers also provided interesting accounts on oriental diseases, symptoms and their therapies but those given by the French are yet to be explored in detail.

Creator

Kundra, Sakul
Bhawna

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 14 No. 4 (2015): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 17-40
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2015-10-01

Rights

Copyright (c) 2016 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Text

Identifier

Citation

Sakul Kundra and Bhawna, French Travellers’ Treatises on Oriental Diseases and Symptoms: Indo-French Medical History, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2015, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/163

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