Wilhem Ten Rhyne (Rhijne) and his Treatise on Asiatic Leprosy; a medical classic by a Dutch physician in Java in the last quarter of 17th century.

Though, I have been studying for nearly 4 decades, the collected or single works 01 European travellers, together their impressions on health and diseases in the Orient and collecting medical works of the early European physicians and Surgeons, that travelled or lived and practised in the East and pubEshed their accounts and observations on the health, conditions, diseases, herbs and drugs, Medical practitioners or modes of treatment in the East (i.e., in India and East Indies) during the 16th. 17th and 18th centuries and also preparing many articles relating to these travellers, physicians their works and relevant descriptions, it was only recently, after I read a very learned and timely article, by Robert W. Carrubba and John Z. Bowers on "Ten Rhijne's De Acupunctura" in Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences' that my interest was aroused in the Life, Scientific activities and Writings of Ten Rhijne, a Medical Graduate from the University of Leyden, who had spent r.iany decades of service in the employment of Dutch East India Company, and made valuable contributions to our knowledge of tropical medicine and tropical Botany.