Western science and pharmacology first learned about many African diseases, remedies, and medicinal practices through Jose Pinto de Azeredo s highly original and influential text.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 first-hand observation, medical practices and substances used in Angola during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.
This first English-language edition of Essays on Some Maladies of Angola was translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones...