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JOUKNAL, K.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. X. 



Porco, 1 and rejected bleeding in apoplexy (even sanguineous) 

 and pleurisy. On his return to his native town he was 

 appointed Principal Surgeon. There exists of his Nieuw 

 hervormde geneeskonst gegrond op de gronden van acidum 

 en alkali (New medicine based on acid and alkali, followed 

 by observations on the common diseases of the Island of 

 Ceylon, Batavia, &c.) ; Amsterdam, 1689, 1694, and 1703, 

 8vo. ; translated into German, Frankfort, 1694, 8vo. ; trans- 

 lated into the same language by John Daniel Gohl, Berlin, 

 1715, 8vo." 



A. J. A. Van der Aa's " Biographisch Woordenboek der 

 Nederlanden " (Haarlem, 1858) gives the title of Daalmans' 

 book as De nieuw hervormde geneeskunst, benevens aan- 

 merkingen van siektens op Ceylon, Batavia, Coromandel, 

 and says that the third edition was published in 1694, which 

 is correct, the first edition having appeared in 1687. It is 

 strange that there does not seem to be a copy of any of the 

 editions of this work in the British Museum Library, nor in 

 the libraries of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians 

 and the Apothecaries' Hall in London ; but the library of the 

 Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, contains a copy 

 of the first edition, the Index Catalogue published at Washing- 

 ton in 1882 having the following entry : — 



"Daalmans (Egidius). De nieuw -hervormde geneeskonst, 

 gebouwt op de gronden van het alcali en acidum. Waar in 

 kortelijk, volgens de gronden van de heedendaagse nieuwe 

 practijk, alle ziekten, met weinig omslag geneesen worden. x, 

 164 pp., 4 1. 12°. Amsterdam, Jan ten Room, 1687." 



Mr. Bell, the Honorary Secretary of our Society, has, 

 I am glad to say, been fortunate enough to secure for 

 the Society's Library a copy of the latest Dutch edition, 

 that of 1703. The title of this differs somewhat from that 

 of the original one of 1687 ; and, while the latter con- 

 tains only some 180 pages, this fourth edition has over 

 260 pages. It is dedicated to two of the author's fellow- 

 collegians, David van den Heuvel and Edmundus Detrohy, 

 and the preface gives the history of this enlarged and revised 



