Dutch doctor born in Leyden, who has published on tropical medicine, flora and fauna in the region. He studied at Leyden, received his medical degree (1614), joined the East India Company and was sent to Batavia (1627).
Despite his precarious knowledge of tropical medicine, in just four years in Java he described several diseases. found in the Dutch colony, including beriberi and even snake venoms, as well as the flora and fauna of the region.
His main work De Medicina Indorum, Leyden (1642) was published posthumously by his brother William Bontius, years after his death in Batavia, when he was only 39 years old. He was the first to introduce the Malay term Orang-Utan, tree man, into European literature.
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