Sample Test

Trying to test the system.

By Samuel Tan

HEALING PRACTICES

Community	Number of Capped Players	Number of Caps Won	Caps Won Per player	Percentage of Caps Won

Chinese	35	97	2.77	41.99 %
Malay	24	66	2.75	28.57 %
European	31	44	1.41	19.04 %
Eurasian	10	24	2.40	10.40 %

HEALING PRACTICES

One of the most notable Malay medical manuscripts translated into English is Ismail Munshi’s The Medical Book of Malayan Medicine. Originally written in Jawi (c. 1850), it contains over 550 remedies for maladies ranging from migraines to depression, bloatedness and leprosy.

	For Violent Headaches and Loss of Energy	For Dizziness and Vertigo	For Night Chills
Ingredients	Cumin seeds (5 cents) Garlic (10 cents) Indian hemp Ginger Smilax china Mace (35 cents) Nutmeg (5 cents) Henbane Javanese ginger	5 young shoots of betel vine Red onion Fennel seeds	Daun medan (root of an unidentified plant) 7 kernels of the fruit of the candle nut
Method	Pound all ingredients together and mix with honey to form into tablets. Patient to take tablets until course of treatment is complete.	Grind finely. Place the pulp on a piece of cloth. Squeeze the juice into the patient’s eyes for three days.	Reduce both ingredients to fine pulp. Apply to patient’s head.

REFERENCE

Burkill, I.H., & Ismail Munshi. (1930). The medical book of Malayan medicine. (Singapore: Botanic Gardens, call no. RCLOS 615.3209595 MED).

Kuching is also known as the City of Cats, 2009. From Wikimedia Commons.