A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.527

v4.c59.527

13 NCC: not recorded. Momin Ali (1990): 152 (placed in the eighteenth century). Bhagvat Sinh Jee (1927): 208: “By Balaram of Benares; it treats of hygiene, nosology, astrology, diseases resulting from folly and vice, materia medica, and therapeutics”; l.c., 122: “In the beginning of the eighteenth century, a well-known physician of Benares composed a large work called “Ataṅkatimirabhaskara”, an important work on the Indian healing art; in the chapter on Materia Medica, he has not only availed himself of the labours of all who had gone before him, but has thrown a new light on some of them; tea is one of the few new drugs he has embodied in his work; his great-grandson, Vaidya Sohamji, was one of the most scholarly and celebrated physicians in Northern India; he died very recently.”