Article ID: CBB001552731

“Sick and Unable to March”: Life and Death in the Army of the Dutch West India Company in the Northeast of Brazil, 1630-1654 (2015)

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Of the many evils that were inflicted upon the army of the West India Company in its years of activity in Brazil, few could be compared to diseases. However, there is little quantitative data in the field of historiography regarding the impact of disease on these troops. Apart from the limited amount of information about the diseases that affected many soldiers, little is known about the medical treatments that were available, the main diseases that affected the troops, and what were the causes. This article provides information to understand aspects that have been little studied in quantitative and systematic terms in the field of historiography, and demonstrates how the diseases afflicted the Company and affected its actions in the territory.

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Authors & Contributors
Correa, Sílvio Marcus de Souza
Costa, Kelerson Semerene
Duque, Ricardo B.
Ferreira, Lúcio Menezes
Figueirôa, Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça
Gerstenberger, Debora
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Rutgers University
Carocci Editore
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
Univ. Chicago Press
University of Hawai'i Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Disease and diseases
Portugal, colonies
Travel; exploration
Natural history
People
Braudel, Fernand
Capanema, Gustavo
Freyre, Gilberto de Mello
João Daniel
Lery, Jean de
Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
Brazil
India
Africa
Great Britain
Philippines
Soviet Union
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
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