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Though there was a great demand for this valuable work, a 

 second edition was not brought out owing to the untimely death 

 o£ the author. Great interest ha?, however, been awakened of 

 late in the subject of Indian medicines. At the Medioal Congress 

 held in Calcutta in 1894, a Drugs Committee was appointed with 

 the late Dr. Kanny Lall Dey aa Joint President, and the Govern- 

 menfc of India have ftlso sinoe then appointed a Commission with 

 the object of considering "the desirability of extending the use of 

 indigenous drugs of India." The advisibality of using serviceable 

 Indian medicines as remedial agents is also admitted by medical 

 men all over the country. As a result, a considerable fresh 

 demand has lately sprung up for this work, to meet which we now 

 publish a new edition. Every pains have been taken to make this 

 edition as accurate as possible, and a considerable amount of new 

 information, which the publishers gathered in the oourse of their 

 long experience as Ayurvedic physicians, have been added to it. 

 With these remarks we now venture to place the work in the 

 hands of the public, hoping that it will be found useful by medioal 

 praotioners and prove beneficial to suffering humanity at large. 



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CALCUTTA. -| KAVIRAJ ASHUTOSH SEN 



NOVEMBER, 1922 J KA-VIRAJ PULIN KRISHNA SEN 



