Crossing colonial historiographies : histories of colonial and indigenous medicines in transnational perspective - Digby, Anne.; Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-; Muhkarji, Projit B. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010)
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Keywords: Traditional medicine -- History; Medical care -- History; Traditional medicine -- Historiography; Colonies -- History; Medicine -- Historiography; Electronic books