Volume 1

A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D / with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations [Praphulla Chandra Rāy].

  • Ray, Prafulla Chandra, 1861-1944.
Date:
1907
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Credit: A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D / with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations [Praphulla Chandra Rāy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Since the days of Sir W. Jones, Sanskrit litera- ture, in almost every department, has been zealous- ly ransacked by scholars, both European and Indian. As the results of their labours we are now in poss- ession of ample facts and data, which enable us to from some idea of the knowledge of the Hindus of old in the fields of Philosophy and Mathematics in- cluding Astronomy, Arthmetic, Algebra, Trigono- metry and Geometry. Even Medicine has re- ceived some share of attention. Wilson in a se- ries of essays published in the Oriental Magazine (1823), Rovle in his Antiquity of Hindu Medioie (1837), and Wise in his commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine {1845', were amongst the first to bring to the notice of the European world the contents of the ancient medical works of the Hin- dus, and recently the Thakur Sahib of Gondal has added his quota. These contributions are, how- ever, of a fragmentary nature. A comprehensive history of Hindu medicine has yet to be written.