Letter, 'The description of a Tartarian plant called gin-seng; with an account of its virtues' from Father [Pierre] Jartoux to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China
Reference number: CLP/10i/42
Date: 12 April 1711
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Account of the ginseng plant, observed by Jartoux in a Tatar village in China near the Korean border. Jartoux describes uses of the plant by Chinese physicians. Manuscript annotation indicates that this account was originally printed in the 10th volume of Letters of the Missionary Jesuits, printed in Paris in 1713.
Subject: Botany / Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description of a tartarian plant, call'd gin-seng; with an account of its virtues. In a letter from Father Jartoux, to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China. Taken from the tenth volume of letters of the Missionary Jesuits, printed in Paris in octavo, 1713'.
Written by Jartoux in Peking [Beijing, China]. Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1714.
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- CLP/10i/42
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- 12 April 1711
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- Ink on paper
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- 19 pages
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- Manuscript
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Letter, 'The description of a Tartarian plant called gin-seng; with an account of its virtues' from Father [Pierre] Jartoux to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China, 12 April 1711, CLP/10i/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_42/letter-the-description-of-a-tartarian-plant-called-gin-seng-with-an-account-of-its-virtues-from-father-pierre-jartoux-to-the-procurator-general-of-the-missions-of-india-and-china, accessed on 21 April 2025
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XXV. The description of a tartarian plant, call'd gin-seng; with an account of its virtues. In a letter from Father Jartoux, to the Procurator General of the Missions of India and China. Taken from the tenth volume of letters of the Missionary Jesuits, printed in Paris in octavo, 1713 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1713
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1713.0025
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