A dictionary of Malayan medicine

THIS dictionary has been prepared by one of the very few officers of the Malayan medical service who has regarded the study of native medicine as anything but time wasted on effete superstitions. Nor, in fact, are the modern hospitals of the western States of Malaya a proper environment for such stu...

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Main Author: Gimlette, John D. 1867-1934 John Desmond (Author)
Other Authors: Thomson, H. W. 1874-1941 Henry Wagstaff (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press 1971
Series:Oxford in Asia paperbacks
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Summary:THIS dictionary has been prepared by one of the very few officers of the Malayan medical service who has regarded the study of native medicine as anything but time wasted on effete superstitions. Nor, in fact, are the modern hospitals of the western States of Malaya a proper environment for such studies, workers in them being insulated from the native atmosphere and fully employed in the study of modern medicine and surgery
Item Description:Reprint of the 1939 ed.
Physical Description:xvi, 259 pages 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:T000001577