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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    16/262
    which I found to he popular and endemic. Nor have I delivered any curative precept, the utility of which I dare not boldly affirm to have been fir ft after- tained by experience. Let ethers who pleafe write of miracles on hearfay \ Ifhall only propoft to your attention what I have feen with my eyes, and what my / 4 judgment, fuch as it is, has been repeatedly convinced to be true. Which as none of our Batavians, as far as I know, has performed, nor even fo much as i # * 1 attempted befere me, it is highly proper that 1, who come the firft upon the ftage, and have to dread the attacks of the malevolent, Jhould crave the patronage of your excellencies, by which, as a jhield, my labours may be protected. „ And what more indulgent patrons could I hope to find, than you, honourable gentlemen, who have hitherto loaded me with your favours, and, if continuing your partiality, will give me fpirit and vigour to attempt undertakings more arduous, and deftrving of your regard ? And if I am fpared, I hope to fhew myfelf not unworthy of the facred dif- penfation of phyfic intrufted to my care. In the mean time, honourable gentlemen, deign to accept this fmallpaper prefent, all I can afford, with that dift pofition in which I have inferibed it to your excel¬ lencies, and in which Iftill fincerely lay myfelf and all my ftrvices at your devotion. Which I ft all