The Physicians
- 1 January 2010
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractAs discussed in the preceding chapter, the Levant Company made some provision at its three largest overseas factories for the moral welfare of the communities of Britons living there. This chapter covers the company’s contrasting detachment from responsibility for their physical well-being, and consider both the health problems that the communities faced and how they coped with them. Rather less has been recorded in the archives or written by historians on the physicians who served the Levant Company factories than on the chaplains. Because the chaplains were salaried employees of the company, there are a fair number of references to them in the official records of both the company in London and its factories in Istanbul, Izmir and Aleppo. As has been shown in the preceding chapter, the company accepted responsibility to provide for the spiritual welfare of its overseas personnel by both supplying and paying for chaplains at each...Keywords
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