OPINIONS OF NEWSPAPERS AND EXPERTS. 



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India, which has yet been pabJished in the English, language and 

 will be welcomed by all students of the history of medicine. 

 It is only through the united efforts of English educated native 

 scholars that we oan hope to acquire an adequate knowledge of 

 the immense repository of pharmaceutical and therapeutical 

 learning treasured up in the anoient Sanskrit medical literature 

 of India and of which we still really know nothing. • * * In 

 this work we have for the first time a Btriot compilation as 

 regards prescribing, compounding and the therapeutics of the 



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Dr. Birdwood in the Academy — August, 1877. 



Although the author modestly desoribes the book as a com* 

 pilation from standard Sanskrit medical works, he has evidently 

 brought very considerable personal knowledge to bear upon it, 

 availed himself of all the possible souroes of information, and 

 exercised great discrimination in distinguishing between the 

 practical uses of the drugs from those whioh are occasional, or in 

 many oases only theoritical. The author has evidently taken 

 -reat pains also to make the work as trustworthy as possible, 

 aving given the original Sanskrit text in foot-notes so that the 

 reader may be able to compare it with the translations given. 



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Much 



out the book ; the general tenor of it shows that the Hindus are 

 far in advanoe of many other Asiatio peoples in their knowledge 

 of the properties of medioines and that they use with boldness 



and skill many powerfal medioines, such as arsenic, aoonite, 

 mercury, <feo. 



A very comprehensive glossary of the native names of Indian 



5>Iants in Sanskrit and Vernaoular with their scientific equiva- 

 ents, and a good index, conclude a work whioh should be in the 

 hands of every Enropean physician in India and which from its 

 intrinsic value should Snd a place in every medioal and pharma- 

 oeutioal library. 



The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, February, 1878. 



The information conveyed ia very interesting, not only to 

 those numerous membera of the profession who will be practising 

 in India but also to the cultivators of therapeutical knowledge 



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