INTRODUCTION. 
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Products of Bombay,” published in 1862, was the first woi'k that 
gave a systematic account of the Bombay drugs. In the 
Pharmacopoeia of India published in 1867, the Bombay drugs 
were not adequately represented. But since then, due princi- 
pally to the labors of Sakbaram Arjun and Dymock, the 
Bombay drugs have been far better worked out than those of 
any other part of India. Sakliaram Arjun’s “ Bombay Drugs ” 
was published in 1870. He was a skilled botanist, being the 
occupant of the Chair of Botany in the Grant Medical College. 
This publication was intended to serve as a catalogue of the 
Indian drugs in the Museum of the Royal Victoria Hospital at 
Netley. Dr. Sakharam Arjun succeeded in correctly identifying 
some of the baz&r drugs and brought to the notice of the 
profession a good many medicinal plants used by the natives 
of Bombay. 
Dymock ’s “ Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India” 
is by far the best work on the indigenous drugs, not only of 
Bombay, but of India generally. It bears strong testimony to 
his having patiently Worked at the subject for a large number 
of years. The Pharm')iaog,raphica Indian will remain, for many 
years to come, the standard work of reference on indigenous 
drugs. 
The medicinal plants and drugs of Sind have not yet been 
properly studied. The only work on the subject is that of 
Murray on “ Plants and Drugs of Sind.” Murray, neither being 
a medical man nor a skilled botanist, compiled his work from 
other sources and, as such, the work is of doubtful value as a 
guide to the plants and drugs of that province. 
Our knowledge of the medicinal plants and drugs of the 
Punjab is also scant and meagre. Honnigberger’s work named 
“ Thirty-five years in the East ” was the first one mentioning 
the Punjab medicinal plants and drugs. Honnigberger was a 
homoeopathic practitioner and was physician to Ran jit Singh. 
The work is hardly of any value, and is very seldom referred 
to now-a-days. 
The Punjab Exhibition of 1864 brought for the first time 
to light the drugs of that province. Mr. B&den Powell described 
