This article emphasizes the important role Natural History has played in the production of medical knowledge from the end of the eighteenth century on. It also tries to clarify the strategic position Brazilian empire came to have in the nineteenth century in relation with etiologically and environmentally oriented research programs under the patronage of Medical Geography. The analysis of the F...

in China a clear and concise account of the special diseases they will meet with in practice in that Empire. That they have completely succeeded in so doing will be evident to any reader of this book. The volume consists of just over 700 pages and is well printed 011 thick paper and admirably and fully illustrated. The volume begins by an account of modern medical work, the Chinese patient, the...

In the intellectual construction of empires in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one principal building blocks was medical geography. A discipline located at boundary medicine, ethnography, sociology, geography, geography devoted itself to understanding social environmental factors that neo-Hippocratic medicine thought determined public health. Thanks History Medicine Medical Geography Russi...