7801

MATERIA MEDICA

OF

HINDOO STAN,

AND

ARTISAN'S

AND

Agriculturist's Nomenclature;

BEING,

IN THE ENGLISH, TAMOOL, DUKHANIE, HINDOOSTANIE, TELINGOO, ARABIC, PERSIAN, SANSCRIT, AND LATIN LANGUAGES,

CATA

A

ATALOGUE, and an account, of such Medicines of the British Materia Medica, as are either the produce of Hindoostan, or are brought to it from Asiatic countries, and are to be met with in the Bazars of populous Towns; including many Drugs of the Tamool, Arabian, and Persian Materia Medica; as also the names given by the Natives to different articles of diet, and other things necessary for the comfort of sick; and the appellations bestowed on those materials which are employed in arts and manufactures to which is added, in the Tamool, Telingoo, Dukhanie, English, and Latin Languages, another and numerous Catalogue of the various productions of the Vegetable kingdom, which are used as food by the inhabitants of these provinces; and concluding with an Appendix, in which are contained the titles of Diseases in Tamool, Dukhanie, Telingoo, and English; together with a list of Malabar, Persian, Arabic, and Sanscrit Medical works; a table of Doses and Weights, with the various forms of Prescriptions, &c. in use amongst the Indians.

BY

WHITELAW AINSLIE, M. D.✓

SUPERINTENDING SURGEON

OF THE

MADRAS ESTABLISHMENT.

THE REVEREND DOCTOR J. P. ROTTLER,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

AS A

TOKEN OF RESPECT

FOR HIS

SCIENTIFIC CELEBRITY,

OF

ESTEEM FOR HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER,

AND IN

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT

OF THE KIND AND LIBERAL AID

WHICH HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM HIM,

BY

HIS SINCERE FRIEND,

WHITELAW AINSLIE,