Jacob de Bondt

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Jacob de Bondt , often Jacobus Bontius (* 1592 in Leiden , † November 30, 1631 in Java ), was a Dutch doctor .

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Jacob de Bondt is a son of the Dutch doctor Gerard de Bondt . He studied in Leiden and acquired the title of Doctor of Medicine in 1614. In 1627 he went to Jakarta (then Batavia) as an envoy for the Dutch East India Company .

His work De Medicina Indorum , published posthumously in 1642, is the first important treatise on the diseases of East India. It contains the first modern descriptions of cholera , the tropical dysentery , the yaws and beriberi .

Together with Willem Piso , he is considered to be one of the forerunners of tropical medicine.

In 1657, the therapeutic sticking of needles was first mentioned in the West by Jacob de Bondt. The term acupuncture was introduced by Willem ten Rhijne a few years later .

Charles Plumier named the genus Bontia of the fig family of plants (Scrophulariaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Medicina Indorum libri IV (Leiden, 1642)
    published posthumously by Willem Piso, later (z. B. Paris, 1645), with works by Prospero Alpini combined
  • Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis libri VI (Amsterdam, 1658)
    posthum Willem Piso in 6 volumes in the factory De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali et Medica published

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literature

  • Victor Carus :  Bontius, Gerard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 137 f.
  • Willem Piso : De indiae utriusque re naturali et medica: Facsimile of the first edition, Amsterdam 1658 . Pies-Archiv family foundation, 2007, ISBN 3-928441-63-9 .
  • Jacobus Bontius (1592-1631) . In: H. Haropld Scott: A History Of Tropical Medicine . Volume 2, The Williams Amp Wilkins Co., Baltimore 1942, pp. 1012-1017 (on- line ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephan Allmendinger: Acupuncture. 2nd Edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-437-42317-8 .
  2. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 32.
  3. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
  4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 290.

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personal data
SURNAME Bondt, Jacob de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobus Bontius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1631
Place of death Java