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Elihu Yale and the medicine he promoted: the government general hospital and Madras Medical College, India.

Much has been written about the philanthropist Elihu Yale and his life in the Americas and England, where he spent his beginnings and end. Less publicized is his life in India, where he spent the majority of his adult life and where he raised his family. A major contribution of Elihu Yale to medicin...

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Autores principales: Mariappan, M. Rajan, Narayan, Deepak, Fadare, Oluwole, Sankarand, J. R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15829148
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Sumario:Much has been written about the philanthropist Elihu Yale and his life in the Americas and England, where he spent his beginnings and end. Less publicized is his life in India, where he spent the majority of his adult life and where he raised his family. A major contribution of Elihu Yale to medicine in India was his promotion of a local hospital in the major Indian trading port city of Madras. This essay briefly describes the history of that hospital and the medical college that grew out of it.