Medical Geography Instructions for the Malay Archipelago

by Arthur Bordier

This classic 1879 paper presented to the Anthropology Society of Paris by Doctor Arthur Bordier constitutes the greatest 19th Century overview of the Malay Archipelago's (i.e., Indonesia's) races and the various diseases and maladies that afflict them. Bordier, who was Professor of Medical Geography at the School of Anthropology in Paris, besides discussing these maladies (dysentery, cholera, hepatitis, etc.) and the cures or treatments employed by the archipelago's indigenes for them, covers...