Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 463

JAKOB DE BONDT (1592-1631) De medicina Indorum. Apud Franciscum Hackium 1642 [6] 212 [4] pp. 12.3 cm.

A Dutch physician educated at Leiden, Bondt entered the service of the East India Company and was sent to Djakarta, Java, where he spent the last four years of his life, dying at the early age of thirty-nine. His writings were preserved and published posthumously by his brother. This important and rare work is divided into four sections: 1) criticisms of the third book of Garcia de Orta's (see No. 245) treatise on Asian materia medica; 2) the maintenance of a healthy diet; 3) Indian methods of treatment; and 4) observations from autopsies. Bondt includes the first modern descriptions of cholera, tropical dysentery, and yaws in this work, making it a milestone in the history of medicine.

See Related Record(s): 245

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2263; Waller 1297; Wellcome II, p. 201