Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1

vines, both those written and explained in our book, and those which I have observed through long-standing experience and practice; and so that this explanation and dictation may be received without any doubt, and that there may be no doctor among the Malabars who would question the truth of what I have said, I have made these present documents which I have written and signed with my own hand. Given in the City of Cochin, 20 April 1675.

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