The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c9.10

c9.10

"The author before us belongs to the pre-university era. A good English scholar, a reputed master of the healing art, with an inquisitive turn of mind, and thoroughly alive to the merits of the indigenous system of medicine, he possesses many qualifications for expounding the principles of the Sanskrit system of medicine, and has performed well his self-elected task. In his preface to the work before us he says that it is a literal translation of the Sanskrit treatise on pathology, compiled by Mádhava Kar, and generally known under the name of Nidána. It gives a pretty full account of the diseases known to the ancient Hindus, and it has been the text-book on medicine for native physicians from a long time past. With a view to enable the reader versed in English medicine readily to identify the diseases described in this work, our author, wherever it has been practicable, has given their equivalent English names in foot-notes. This translation is a valuable contribution to Indian Medical Literature."—*Hindoo Patriot, October 20, 1873.*