"It is testimony to the combination of geostrategic and natural resource interests in place at the time, and, ultimately, it bears witness to the unrelenting efforts of a learned and humanitarian physician who vigorously dealt with fearsome and often fatal diseases in one of the regions of the tropics."—Isis, Journal of the History of Science Society

"This work is of significant value even if we don't necessarily seek to force it into a triumphalist narrative, offering material of particular interest to scholars of colonial science and medicine, Enlightenment intellectual networks, and the role of surgeons and physicians in the Atlantic slave trade. The introductory essays and running footnotes also have the benefit of not only framing Azeredo's life but offering a concise history of the role of the commerce in medicines in the eighteenth century Portuguese empire, complete with extensive references to primary sources in Goa."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine