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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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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    C 22§ ] On CHAPTER IV. «*■ Of the Jaaca Fruit., , * T> ESIDE the fpecies of jaaca here defcribed, there likewife grows another in Java, on a very high and thick tree, with leaves refembling thofe of the plane, but much greener, and not covered with down. It bears fruit far lefs than the other Jaaca, and not of the fame kind, but of fomewhat a finer tafle, which hangs not from the trunk, but the branches. This fruit is nau- 1 Y # ftating, and, as the author obferves, unwhoJfome,
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