| Title: | Abanga |
| Original Title: | Abanga |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 9 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Abanga." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.504>. Trans. of "Abanga," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Abanga." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.504 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abanga," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:9 (Paris, 1751). |
Abanga, is the name that the inhabitants of the island of Saint Thomas [1] give to the fruit of their palm. This fruit is about the size of a lemon, to which it is, in fact, very similar. C. Bauhin [2] says that the islanders give three or four a day of its seeds to their sick in need of pectorals. [3]
1. Today St. Thomas is the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands and site of the capital of the territory, Charlotte Amalie, named in 1691 after the wife of King Christian V of Denmark, which possessed the island throughout the 18th century.
2. Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin, 1560-1624, was a Swiss botanist. His Pinax theatric botanici (‘Illustrated Exposition of Plants’), published in 1596 and republished in 1671 in quarto, and Enumeratio plantarum ab herboriis nostro saeculo descriptarum cum corum differentiis (1620), classify thousands of species. Because Linnaeus adopted them, many of his names for genera remain in use today.
3. That is, medicines to relieve disorders of the chest or respiratory tract.