[Thomas Lindley: a traveler tells of disease and how it was handled in the early nineteenth century].

Thomas Lindley, an English businessman , was arrested for smuggling in Bahia at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was mistaken gor a doctor and ended up serving as one while there. Upon returning to England, he published his diary. This study takes a close look at this references to how settlers back then and there experienced disease and medical treatment.