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graphia : a History of Drugs (London, 1874), the value of whicli 
is well known. The sixth authority is Dr. Eustomjee JSTaserwanjee 
Khory, whose Bombay Materia Medica supplies many deJ&ciencies in 
the other works, especially as to the native estimate and uses of 
drugs indigenous to India. Some additional authorities which 
have been consulted are O'Shaughnessy, Bengal Bispensaiory and 
Pharmacopoeia ; Col. H. Drury, Useful Plants of India ; Dr. Waring, 
Pharmacopoeia of India ; and The Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words, by 
Sir H. Yule and Mr. H. C. Burnell. 
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in 1582, &o., as above. 
