In between the two diametrically opposed stances on medical modernity sketched in its opening and closing chapters, Imperial Pharmakon has told a many-sided story about Western medicine in colonial milieus: its will to anatomize body and world, its promissory discourse, its status as a vector of modern desire, its domiciliation and vernacularizing, as well as its hostile biopolitical stance vis-a-vis the colonized. Taking a long and wide view of its subject has enabled the book to underscore that medicine was never only a dry, prohibitive, and stigmatizing exercise of imperial power/knowledge relations (as often portrayed), but an unstable and contingent performance, generating chemistries alongside allergies over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book’s source materials have been curated with a view to clarifying these contradictions, nuances, and, radical departures from hegemonic modes of knowing and treating illness. The arrangement has uncovered colonial medicine’s internal ramification into different specialties as well as complicated its representation as a discrete apparatus disentangled from the mesh of ambient life. Exclusive and inclusive, baleful and benevolent, caring and careless, foreign and incorporated, Western medicine as I have tracked it across select sites in colonial India presents as a changeful complex of orientations, effects, and relations.