Disquisitions in the history of medicine : Part first, Exhibiting a view of physic, as observed to flourish, during remote periods, in Europe, and the East.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1811
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    individuals. Thus P. Luigi Maria de Gesu, a Carmelite, afterwards Bishop of Usula, and apos- tolic Vicar of the coast of Malabar, coming round Cape Comorin in a native ship, was carried over to the Maldives, and thence to the shores of Africa. (Paolin. p. 83.) A similar fate, many centuries before, befel the freed man of Annius Plocamus farmer of the revenue on the Red Sea to the Emperor Claudius. This agent of the collector, coasting along the Arabic Gulf where it joins the ocean, and venturing too far from shore, was taken up by the Monsoon, and transported, without stopping, to the island of Ceylon. (Vine. Perip. vol. I. 45.) It is alledged by Dr. Vincent, and other writers, that the whole commerce betwixt India and the Red Sea must have been transacted by Arabians only, since the Hindus were prohibited, alike by religion and law, from exercising navigation, for fear of violating the divine principle or element of water. This is a mistake, as appears from the following passage of Sir W. Jones: That the Hindus were in early ages a commercial people, we have many reasons to believe; and in the first of their sacred law tracts, which they suppose to have been revealed by Menu, many millions of years ago, we find a curious passage on the legal interest of money and the limited rate of it in different cases, with an exception in regard to adventures at sea; an exception which the sense of mankind ap-