A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s3.40

v1.c9.s3.40

Apart from the historical data already adduced, the above extracts from a Mohammedan writer would show that the Hindus were perhaps the earliest in the field to advocate the internal use of mercury.¹ Ainslie, in a note appended “Lepra Arabum,” written in the early part of the last century, thus expresses his views on the subject:—