Volume 1

The principles and practice of medicine / by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory.

  • Khory, Rustomjee Naserwanjee.
Date:
1885
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    adopted from them may prove as useful to the modern student as it doubtless was to the subtle disputants of Salernum and of Montpellier. In other respects I have in the main followed the beaten track, except that I have more often than is usual resorted to tables for the purpose of clear exposition of resemblances, differences, and details, and that I have introduced a short account of insanity under diseases of the brain, and a short abstract of toxicology among diseases of the stomach. Hippocrates has a treatise on ancient medicine, and I have felt that a short account of the growth of the observations and hypotheses which my book contains was the most fitting conclusion to it, and I have accordingly printed a letter which a Fellow of the College had written to me on the subject. Modern investigations have, it is true, shown that our Susruta is no native Indian, but Hippocrates himself, and that the Eastern learning, as regards medicine, is a reflection of the scientific brilliancy which so early appeared in the West. If, however, India cannot claim the origin of medicine, her practitioners have, at least in modern times, discovered and brought into scientific use numerous valuable remedies. Of these I have given a series of tables and prescriptions. Of the efficacy of a large number of these drugs I have made numerous trials, and obtained satisfactory proofs. Dr. Burjorji, Physician to H.H. the Maharaja of Bhownuggur, has been so good as to assist in this part by sending several native prescriptions which, with others of my own or of general use, are appended to the table of bazaar drugs. I have been indebted to Dr. Birdwood's catalogue of The Economic Products of the Presidency of Bombay in preparing this list. I have prepared myself for the work by an extended course of reading, and by observation of the methods of medicine in several parts of India as well as in the hospitals of London, Brussels, and Paris. If my book proves useful to even a few of my professional brethren, whether practitioners or students, I shall have received a sufiicient reward for my reading and my travels. In conclusion, I beg to convey my sincerest thanks to the teachers of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in general, and especially to Dr. Andrew, Dr. Glee, and Dr. Moore, for opportunities of observation, or for suggestions during the progress of the work. EUSTOM.JEE NASEEWANJEE KHOEY. btk March, 1879.