Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c18.15

c18.15

The preparations of the Hindu pharmaceutical laboratories were thus in use in Greece as well as in the Hellenistic and Græco-Roman world. The Hindu inventions were bodily incorporated in the European systems. The Indian names, e.g., hardwickii, trypherum, etc., were retained; also, the original Hindu uses of the drugs. And all this before the age of Saracen intermediaries.⁵¹