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Dr.Hoerule— An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. [No. 3, 
vious, as the extant traces taken together with the metre and the context 
indicated clearly enough what the missing letters must have been. All 
such restorations, however, are invariably included within straight 
brackets. 
The translation is necessarily somewhat free here and there, 
though always substantially faithful. I cannot feel certain, however, 
that I have always grasped the right meaning ; the diction of the work 
is too rugged, and my acquaintance with medicine, limited. I have 
tried to obtain help, as far as I could, from Hindu practitioners. The 
Sanskrit names of the drugs I have retained, except in those few 
cases, where there are well-known English equivalents. In the case of 
those Sanskrit names, whose identity is certain, I have added in 
brackets their scientific equivalents ; but in some cases I could not feel 
certain as to which plant or drug was really intended. I consulted 
chiefly Dr. Dutt’s useful Hindu Materia Medica and Professor Garbe’s 
Indische Mineralien ; also Dr. Watt’s Economic Products of India. 
Transcript. 
First Leaf: Reverse. 
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