Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9186

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1690.—“Others are said to raise a Mango-Tree, with ripe Fruit upon its Branches, in the space of one or two Hours. To confirm which Relation, it was affirmed confidently to me, that a Gentleman who had pluckt one of these Mangoes, fell sick upon it, and was never well as long as he kept it ’till he consulted a Bramin for his Health, who prescrib’d his only Remedy would be the restoring of the Mango, by which he was restor’d to his Health again.”—*Ovington, 258-259.*