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With regard to their drugs, an endless field for research lies before us, which cannot fail in time, I believe, to produce useful adjuvants to our British Pharmacopoeia.
Their "Daun Glengang" is the leaf of a shrub from the pith of which our Chrysophanic Acid is manufactured, and there can be no doubt that some of their sedative leaf poultices are useful.
Amongst their "one-hundred drugs" given in place of our ergot after accouchement, there may easily be its equal if not superior.
In Abortifacients they are rich, and some, doubtless, are useful Ecbolics.
In concluding this apology and brief sketch of the medical methods in vogue amongst a fascinating, euquiring, and superstitious race of born gentlemen, the mantle of prophecy falls upon me, and I beg leave to state that when their Lister is born and we have succeeded in driving out Hantus by Pathology, the Malays will be valuable allies to European medicine, but we must, in the first place, gain their confidence by using the right medical words in the right places at the right time, and if I have herein in any way assisted at the commencement of such a scheme, my reward is now with me.
To Messrs. J. F. OWEN, T. C. FLEMING, H. NORMAN, and T. G. BISHOP, for assistance, and to Miss C. HOFFMAN, for French and Dutch translations, and to Mr. F. EMERIC DE ST. DALMAS, for the collection of Sakei terms, I am very deeply indebted.
