Volume 1

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

  • Bondt, Jakob de, 1592-1631.
Date:
1769
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin of James Bontius ... To which are added annotations by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * r 208 ] ■ , The author, in another chapter, bellows ma¬ ny deferved encomiums on the China root, I fhall only add to them, that this root, befide be¬ ing c f ufe in venereal affedlions, is advantageous in all chronic difeafes, which are prevalent, as the cachexy, leucophlegmatia, dropfy, and in the fpecies of palfy called the barbiers'; as I expe¬ rienced in myfelf, as well as others, when I was ill of that diforder four months, and, before 1 began the ufe of the China, could not move my legs or arms, but with difficulty* s