An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin ... to which are added annotations by a physician.

  • Bondt, Jakob de, 1592-1631
Date:
1776
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Credit: An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin ... to which are added annotations by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dedication. TO THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE DIRECTORS OF AFFAIRS IN THE EAST INDIES* A L M 0 S F three years are now elapjed, A. honourable gentlemen, fince firft I devoted my medical labours to your excellencies * which on my arrival in your Indies, I began to exert with activity, to demonfir ate my endeavours, that, the emoluments you have conferred upon me Jhould be productive of public advantage. What obfervations, therefore5 J ttzj practice through the day\ thefe at nighty when more difengaged from cares, I committed to pa¬ per , J 72(9W 772<3^^ public, as a fmall return for the many obligations I lie under to your excellencies, and which I never can fully repay. From the obfervations which appeared to me the mofi important, I have compiled this method of cure, and defcribed the difeafes