culus, or Vena Medeni of Arabian writers: On the Andrum, a ſort of Hydrocele, or watry rupture, and the Perical, an Ulcer in the Legs, two endemial diſtempers, among the Malabarians: On the Japaneſe way of curing the Colick by the Acupunctura, and on the Moxa, a Cauſtick in frequent uſe among the Chineſe and Japaneſe.
Upon his return to his native Country, he intended forthwith to digeſt his Papers and written Memoirs into proper order, and to communicate to the publick what he had obſerved in his travels, and certainly, it would have been then the beſt time for it, when every thing was as yet freſh in his mind: But his reputation and experience, and the honour which the Count de Lippe, his Sovereign Prince, did him, by appointing him Phyſician to himſelf and his family, quickly involved him into ſo extenſive a practice, as with a multiplicity of other buſineſs, prevented his purſuing this laudable deſign with that vigour he himſelf deſired, and its own nature and importance deſerved. For theſe reaſons it was chiefly, that the Amœnitates Exoticæ did not appear in print till the year 1712. That work, which was only intended as a Specimen and Prodromus of others, met (as indeed for the number and ſingularity of new and curious obſervations it well deſerved) with a general applauſe, and begot, in all lovers of learning, an earneſt ſolicitation for his other works promiſed in the Preface, to wit, his Hiſtory of Japan, which is hereby offer’d to the publick, his Herbarium Ultra-Gangeticum, or the deſcription and figures of the Plants obſerved by him in ſeveral Eaſtern Countries beyond the Ganges, and laſtly, a compleat account of all his Travels.
He was married in 1700, to Maria Sophia Wilſtach, only daughter of Wolfrath Wilſtach, an eminent Merchant at Stolzenau, and had by her iſſue one ſon and two daughters, who all died in their infancy.
The long courſe of his Travels, the fatigues of his profeſſion, and ſome private misfortunes in his family, had very much impair’d his conſtitution, and in the latter part of his life he was often troubled with the Colick, of which he had two very ſevere attacks, one in November 1715, and another at the
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