Diseases and Medicine in 17th and 18th Century India. Interactions between Indian and European System of Medicine

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject History - Asia, grade: none, Aligarh Muslim University (Department of History), course: Ph.d., language: English, abstract: The Portuguese were the first who introduce the European system of medicine in India. Initially, they came as ship physicians and surgeons. Later, at the city ports of Gujarat the British, the French and Italian physicians came. With their arrival a new system of medicine was introduced. Nonetheless, in the initial stage it was they who benefitted more from the Indigenous systems rather than the other way round. One of the early trained European to land in India was Garcia da Orta who lived and worked in Goa (1538-68).The Linschotin account here mentioned about the various medicinal plants and their uses.There were interaction between these two systems divided into three phases.