treated enlargement of the prostate. He also claims he has shown how they treated atherosclerosis based on the evidence of the discovery of ajoene and alliinase in fresh garlic. It appears from this that he is reaching conclusions on specific therapies of early physicians by means of the discoveries of modem pharmacology. Some notice should be taken of the evidence suggesting that drugs were no...

Introduction The Paper Historical Collection of the Dutch Royal Library, the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, includes amongst its collections forty sheets of a manuscript written on tree bark (KB:I.A.4.). The manuscript, folded in a concertina, measures 194 x 134 mm. It was acquired by auction for the collection in 1970 and was at that time classified as written in Rencong scr...