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PREFACE.
In presenting this volume to the English-speaking Medical Profession of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, some brief Vorwart is perhaps necessary to help in the extenuation of its incompleteness and no doubt many inaccuracies.
It has been compiled from the following sources:—
The Standard English-Malay and Malay-English Dictionaries by WILKINSON, SWETTENHAM, MARSDEN, CLIFFORD & SWETTENHAM (unfinished), CRAWFORD, SHELLABEAR, and MAXWELL. The work of FAVRE, Malay-French and French-Malay, and to a limited extent also from the work of KLINKERT, Dutch-Malay and Malay-Dutch, and lastly from personal attention to and the valued assistance of educated Malays.
My apologies for its appearance are briefly the following facts:—
- That on my landing in the country I found myself in a sea of unsurveyed technical language.
- The paucity of Malays in the Government Hospitals at the present date in the States of the Federation. This, I believe, the majority of enquirers must agree with me in believing to be due largely to the fact that the subordinate, and even the executive, members of our profession are not familiar with the accepted terms in the Malay language for certain diseases well recognised by Malays, and consequently that the unfortunate sufferers rarely receive a diagnosis of their complaints.
