A Concise History of Science in India c8.s9.26

c8.s9.26

The author has never referred to any Āyurvedic work. But he has often mentioned the Indian medicaments after dealing with the treatment of the various diseases. He also compiled another large book, The *Muḥiṭi* *Aʻẓam*, on *materia medica*, on the basis of 68 previous works on the subject. In it, he has mentioned a large number of Indian medicaments belonging to vegetable, mineral and animal kingdoms. These books contain the summary of all the previous works on these subjects.