[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877) › c9.8 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c9.8 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c9.8 - **Language:** English ### [c9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9.8) "Nidána is a Sanskrit treatise on Hindu Medicine, compiled by Madhub Kur, a Sudra, who lived many hundred years ago. It was intended for the benefit of the ordinary class of students, who, for certain reasons, had no access to the more learned works of Charaka and Suśruta. It may, therefore, be accepted as one of the text-books of the Hindu Medical Schools. It gives a clear and concise account of all the diseases and injuries known to the Hindu physicians up to the time when it was written, including their diagnosis and prognosis. The whole work is evidently based on clinical experience, and, as a didactic record of facts, it is very valuable. But, for the explanations of these facts, they are often interwoven with absurd theories and doctrines which take the place of physiology and pathology. The object of this work was simply to teach diseases, leaving their treatment to be dealt with in a separate book; and it would be a great thing if we could have a similar book composed in Bengali, with the light of modern science, for the use of our vernacular medical students. That is a great want which, however, could only be supplied by oriental scholars like Baboo Udoy Chand Dutt, the learned translator of this work. As it is, the Baboo has done great service to vernacular medicine, and our best acknowledgments are due to him for it. - [Previous: c9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9.7) - [Next: c9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9.9) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c9.8) · Pramāṇa