The indigenous drugs of India, or, Short descriptive notices of the principal medicines, both vegetable and mineral, in common use among the natives of India / by Kanny Loll Dey.

  • Dey, Kanny Lall.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The indigenous drugs of India, or, Short descriptive notices of the principal medicines, both vegetable and mineral, in common use among the natives of India / by Kanny Loll Dey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In offering this little volume to the Public, I consider it right to mention that it was, a few months ago, sent to Paris as a Descriptive Cata- logue of a collection of Native Drugs, which I had the honor of contributino; to the Universal Exhibition then open in that city. While the Ca- talogue was yet in press, some portions of it were shewn by me to Dr. Green, the Principal Inspector General of the Medical Department, who thought that it might also serve a useful purpose by being- placed in the hands of medical men in this country; and kindly encouraged me to print a larger number of copies than ,T ^riginally contemplated, offering, on behalf of So^eiSment, to take six hundred copies for distribution among Government medical officers, both European and Native, at the Presidency and Mofussil stations. I am thus indebted to Dr. Green's liberal views for the appearance of this work in its present form. I consider it, however, due to those into whose hands it may fall, that I should disclaim any originality as regards the descriptions given of the several articles included in it. They have been mostly taken, though after much con- densation, from Sir. W. B. O'Shaughncssy's Bengal Dispensatory, Waring's Thex\npeutics, and his list of Indigenous Drugs, Drury's Useful Plants of India, the Madras Quarterly Journal, the Indian Annals of Medical Science, and various other works to which reference was necessary. But it has been my delight to prosecute the study of Native Drugs, for some years past, with the aid of these works, and to note the points in which, according to my experience, any of the Drugs, or any classes of them, presented properties different to those described in the