Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections
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Antoine Thomas, SI as a «Patient» of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1662-1722): A Case Study on the Appropriation of Theriac at ...
In this article I shall concentrate on Antoine Thomas’ illness and death (July 28, 1709) in Peking. This will serve as a case study to elucidate certain aspects of the role played by Jesuit medicine, i.e. Jesuit physicians and Jesuit drugs, at the court of the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722), the first of the three great rulers of the Qing dynasty (1...
