ABSTRACT
Medicine and music, the one by necessity, the other for amusement, have made more progress, or been more practised. Of the first they are, indeed, like other barbarians, extremely ignorant as a science, but, in the last they have made a progress unusual in their state of society. The most fatal effects of ignorance in the healing art are exemplified in venereal complaints. The treatment of women in child-birth is judicious, or at least discreet, for nothing is done to impede the operations of nature. The facility of the process of parturition in a warm climate is the most obvious and greatest advantage possessed by its inhabitants over the natives of temperate regions. Each tribe has its distinct national airs, but it is among the Javanese alone that music assumes the semblance of an art.
