Essays on some maladies of Angola (1799) / José Pinto de Azeredo ; translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones ; edited by Timothy D. Walker, Adelino Cardoso, António Braz de Oliveira, Manuel Silvério Marques.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azeredo, José Pinto de, 1763-1807, author.

Contributor:

Walker, Timothy Dale, 1963- editor.

Cardoso, Adelino, editor.

Oliveira, António Braz de, editor.

Marques, Manuel Silvério, 1946- editor.

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Series:

Classic histories from the Portuguese-speaking world in translation ; 2.

Classic histories from the Portuguese-speaking world in translation ; 2

Standardized Title:

Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades de Angola. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Angola--History--1648-1885.

Communicable diseases.

History.

Angola.

Communicable Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Communicable Diseases.

Angola.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 151 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dartmouth, Massachusetts : Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, [2016]

Summary:

Western Science and pharmacology first learned about many African diseases, remedies, and medicinal practices through José Pinto de Azeredo's highly original and influential treatise. A unique Enlightenment-era medical text written specifically about health issues in Angola, this is the first work by a Portuguese physician to describe accurately, through firsthand observation, treatments and substances used in western Africa at the height of the transatlantic slave trade during the closing decade of the eighteenth century. This first English-language edition of Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) was translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones (University of Stirling) and includes scholarly essays by Timothy D. Walker (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Adelino Cardoso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), António Braz de Oliveira (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) and Manuel Silvério Marques (Universidade de Lisboa). Book jacket.

Contents:

Medical Inquiry in the Enlightenment-Era Portuguese Imperial World: Azeredos Scientific Publications in Context / Timothy D. Walker Walker, Timothy D. 1

Describing and Explaining: The Systematic Horizon of the Essays by José Pinto de Azeredo / Adelino Cardoso Cardoso, Adelino 21

Shadows in the Enlightenment of Imperial Tropics: José Pinto de Azeredo's Enfermidades de Angola / António Braz de Oliveira Oliveira, António Braz de, Manuel Silvério Marques Marques, Manuel Silvério 31

Essays on Some Maladies of Angola / José Pinto De Azeredo Azeredo, José Pinto De 61.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Azeredo, José Pinto de, 1763-1807, author. Essays on some maladies of Angola (1799).

ISBN:

9781933227696

1933227699

OCLC:

925426531

Publisher Number:

99967497262