Exotic drugs and english medicine: England's drug trade, c. 1550-c. 1800

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-46

  Wallis, Patrick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consumption; drug trade; early modern; England; therapeutics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857276727     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkr055     Document Type: Review

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