45* Materia Medica Animalium Indica. 



By David Hooper. 



Workers on Indian Materia Medica have paid more atten- 

 tion to drugs of vegetable origin than those of the animal 

 kingdom. One reason for this neglect is because drugs of the 



latter class form a small proportion of those in general use. 

 The present paper is an attempt to bring these materials to- 

 gether in a classified form, to state their properties as far as they 

 are known, and to give their composition where this has been 

 ascertained. The following works among others have been 

 consulted in compiling the list, and notes from correspondence 

 in the Office of the Reporter on Economic Products, Indian 

 Museum, have been utilised : — 



Ainslie's Materia Indica, 1826. Irvine's Topography of 

 Ajmeer, 1841. Honigberger's Thirty-five Years in the East, 

 1852. Baden Powell's Punjab Products, 1868. Pharmaco- 

 poeia of India, 1868. Sakaram Arjun's Bombay Drugs, 1877. 

 U. C. Dutt's Materia Medica of the Hindus, 1*900. Khory's 

 Materia Medica of India, 1908. Watt's Dictionary of the 

 Economic Products, 1889-1893, and Commercial Products of 

 India, 1908. 



Many substances such as the flesh of animals and charms 

 worn on the person to prevent disease are omitted from the list. 

 Galls produced by insects have not been enumerated as it is 

 considered more appropriate to deal with them as vegetable 

 structures under the name of the trees upon which they are 

 formed. The present list of animal drugs therefore includes, 

 as far as possible, those that are recognized by Hindu and 

 Muhammadan physicians and sold in the bazar. I have to 

 acknowledge the valuable help I have received from Dr. N. 

 Annandale in identifying specimens and for supplying informa- 

 tion on many of the products. 



PROTOZOA. 



XlIMMULITES ATACICUS. 



These button-like fossils are sold in the drug bazar of 

 Lahore under the name of sangh nadh. 



In Baden Powell's " Punjab Products " the following 

 fossils are enumerated : 



Sang-i-khurus, a fossil encrinite (Echinodermata). 

 Sang-i-irmali, a fossil (Echinodermata). 

 Hajr-ul-yahudi, encrinite. 



