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Jan Brandes, Surgeon’s cabin on the VOC ship Stavenisse, 1785-86. Rijksmuseum, https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200211281. Public domain.

Cataplasma and Lienteria: Medical Terms in the VOC Archives

Linda Robertus uses the medical journal from a 1738 voyage to Ceylon to illustrate her work on a dataset of medical terminology drawn from 18th-century VOC surgeons’ journals.

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