Curiosities of medical experience / By J.G. Millingen.

  • John G. Millingen
Date:
1838
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    ton immediately repaired to Bengal to purchase wiucain which he sent round by sea to Surat. Scarcely had he returned, when he was requested to attend the favourite of a powerful nabob, and he fortu- nately restored her to health, when, in addition to a pension, his commercial privileges were still more widely extended; the prince promising him at the same time a favourable reception for British traders. Broughton lost no time in communicating this intelligence to the Governor of Surat ; and it was by his advice that the company sent out two large ships to Bengal in 1640. There are some amusing anecdotes related regarding a vocation for the medical profession. Andrew Rudiger, a physician of Leipsic, when at college, made an anagram of his name, and, in the words “indreas Rudiger he found.“ Arare Rus Dei Dignus,” or, “ wor- thy to cultivate the field of God.” He immediately fancied ‘that his vocation was the church, and commenced -his theological studies. Showing but little disposition for the clerical calling, the learned Thomasius recommended him to return to his original pursuits. Rudiger confessed that he had more inclination for the profession of medicine than the church ; but that he had considered the shape of his name as a divine injunction. ‘“¢ There you are inerror,’’ replied Thomasius ; “that very anagram calls you, to the art of healing, for Rus Dei clearly meaneth the churchyard.” ON THE USE, OF TEA. Suc is the growing consumption of this now indispensable article in England, that in 1789 there was imported 14,534,601 Ibs., and in 1833 the quantity was increased to 31,829,620 lbs.; the latter im- portation yielding a revenue of 3,444,1012. In other countries we find the consumption much. less. Russia in 1832 imported 6,461,- 064 lbs. ; Holland consumes about 2,800,000 Ibs., and France only 230,000 lbs. It is supposed that tea was first introduced in Europe by the Dutch, about the middle of the seventeenth century ; and Lords Arlington and Ossory are said to be the first persons who made it known in England. In 1641, Tulpius, a Dutch physician, mentions it in his works. In 1667, Fouquet, a French physician, recommended it to the French faculty ; and in 1678, we find an elaborate treatise writ- ten on it by Cornelius Boutkoé, physician to the Elector of Branden- burg. About the same time, several travellers and missionaries, amongst whom we find Kempfer, Kalm, Osbeck, Duhalde, and Le- comte, give various accounts of the plant and its divers qualities. The Chinese name of this plant is theh, a Fokien word. In the Mandarin it is ¢cha, and the Japanese call it iyad. Loureiro, in his Flora Cochin-China, describes three species of tea. It is a poly-
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