WILHELM TEN RHYNE

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'Wilhelm ten Rhyne' (16491700) was a Dutch doctor and botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. He wrote the first European account of acupuncture, ''De Acupunctura'', and the first detailed study of tea.
He also wrote a book entitled ''An Account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes'', which describes the lives of the Khoikhoi (then ''Hottentots'') during the early days of Dutch settlement in the Cape.

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★ 1673 ''An Account of the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentotes, the Natives of that Country'' (English trans. 1704)

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