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.

  • Jacobus Bontius
Date:
1776
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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 ... to which are added annotations by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 217 ] the place whither they were removed afforded none of the herb which produces them : but a few years afterwards, when the ifland refumed its ufual verdure, and the goats were re-import¬ ed to browze on their wonted food, they pro¬ duced the ffones as before. , I thought proper to relate thefe fads, as they are confirmed both by our own and the Englifh merchants. With regard, however, to the hyper¬ bolical virtues, and ftrange efficacy, attributed to thefe ffones, a thoufand inffances will juffify my detradion. Befides, I am not by nature fo prone to credulity, as eafily to admit the fiiper- ftitious accounts of medicines, till I find them confirmed by experience. But you may believe as a truth, that thefe ffones occafion as much uneafinefs to the goats, as thofe of the kidneys and bladder to men. Thefe goats are not much unlike the European, except that their horns are longer, and ered. The fkins of fome of them are beautifully fpotted like the tyger, of which kind we have two in the fort of Batavia. The goats ftep with more or lefs eafe, according to the fize and number of the ffones which they )
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