Medical Connections and Exchanges in the Early Modern World

Medical Connections and Exchanges in the Early Modern World

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For most of human history there have been extensive exchanges of medical information all Feeding over Eurasia.Some diseases were considered to be geographically determined, and hence had to be cured using local knowledge.Other ailments were found in many places, but cures could differ according to location.Most healers, whether book based or experiential, took a non-judgemental approach to different healing methods, as seen especially in India in Niacin the early colonial period.