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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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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    which makes its appearance at the top of the plant, and refembles that of the corn-flag. I will be anfwerable that what he fays, towards the end of the chapter, of his being of opinion that the root of the curcuma may be taken inwardly without any detriment, ought to be changed into, boldly taken : for there is no other preferve fo much tiled by the Indians in drefling their food. Belides, it is of the higheft utility, as a medicine, adminiftered not only topically, but internally, in ail obftru&ions of the bowels and mefentery, fo frequent in this country *, in complaints, like- wife, of the urinary pafiages. In female difor- ders, no medicine is fo much celebrated by the Malaian women as borbory. In facilitating the birth it is a fovereign remedy: in complaints of the uterus it is fpecific. And to confirm this opinion by my own experience, I have in reality found nothing lb beneficial in all the diforders above-mentioned, as this moft excellent remedy.