[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c9.s2.93 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s2.93 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s2.93 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.s2.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.93) “There is another class of people called \*Chughi\* (yogi), who were indeed properly Abraiman, but they form a religious order devoted to the idols. They are extremely long-lived, every one of them living to 150 or 200 years. They eat very little \* \* \* and these people make use of a strange beverage, for they make a potion of sulphur and quicksilver mixed together, and this they drink twice every month. This, they say, gives them long life; it is a potion they are used to take from their childhood.”—Yule’s “Macro Polo,” Vol. II. p. 300. - [Previous: v1.c9.s2.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.92) - [Next: v1.c9.s2.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.94) - [Up: v1.c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c9.s2.93) · Pramāṇa