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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. De medicina Indorum. English
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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    is] whey, when heated by running or any other ylo- / lent exercife, they have incurred the greateft danger, and even death itfelf. Among the chief fymptoms of this difeafe, is a latitude of the whole body. The motion and lenfation, efpecially of the feet and hands, are languid and depraved ; and, for the molt part, a titillation is felt in thefe parts, fimilar to what feizes them in cold countries in the winter ^ but with this difference, that the fenfation in the Barbiers is more painful. The fpeechis, fome- times, io much obffru^fed, that the patient can. fcarce pronounce a fy 11 able articulately : which happened to myfelf in this diforder, when for a whole month my voice was fo weak, that people, who fat clofe to me, could with difficulty under- ffand what I fpoke. Belide thefe, there are many other fymptoms, which, however, all confirm the exiftence of a cold and vifcid humour. The cure of this diforder is generally very tedious ^ the humour being difficult to re- folve. For the moll part, however, it is not mortal, unlefs it feizes the mufcles of the breaft and thorax, and thereby flop refpiration. Ly¬ ing in bed ffiould be avoided as much as poffi- ble ; and the patient ought to walk, ride on horfeback, and ufe all the harder forts of B 2 exer-
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