Title
Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India according to European practice
By
Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Travancore, Sirrar Press, 1860
Notes
Text English and Hindustani.
Edward John Waring was an English practitioner of Indian pharmacology. Waring was at the service of the East India Company in which he undertook the duties of assistant-surgeon in the Madras establishment where he remained throughout the Burmese war. The post gave him charge of Mergni in the Tennasserim provinces, a remote place over 1,000 miles from Calcutta. Transportation difficulty during the war caused the drug supplies of Mergni to run short and Waring sought native medicines, an investigation which led him to study the properties of indigenous plants of India, and eventually to publish this work. It was published in English and Tamil in 1860, and later translated into Malyalim and the Karen languages of Burma.
Reference: Edward John Waring. British Medical Journal. Jan. 31, 1891, p. 264-5.
Subjects
Botany
,
Botany, Medical
,
India
,
Materia medica
,
Pharmaceutical Preparations
,
Phytotherapy
,
Plant extracts
,
Plants, Medicinal
Call Number
R135.6 .W5 1860
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104686
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