Materia Indica, Or, Some Account of Those Articles which are Employed by the Hindoos, and Other Eastern Nations, in Their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture: Comprising Also Formulæ, with Practical Observations, Names of Diseases in Various Eastern Languages, and a Copious List of Oriental Books Immediately Connected with General Science, &c. &c, Volumen2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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Página viii - St'hana, or a supplementary section on various local diseases, or affections of the eye, ear, &c. — In all these divisions, however, surgery, and not general medicine, is the object of the Susruta.
Página 175 - Arabs recommend the root-bark as being the most astringent part of the plant, and a perfect specific in cases of tapeworm ; it is given in decoction, prepared with two ounces of fresh bark, boiled in a pint and a half of water till but three quarters of a pint remain ; of this, when cold, a wineglassful may be drunk every half-hour till the whole is taken.
Página xxiii - When separation of the informed soul from its corporeal frame at length takes place, and nature in respect of it ceases, then is absolute and final deliverance accomplished.
Página xxi - I am persuaded that a connexion subsisted between the old idolatrous nations of Egypt, India, Greece, and Italy, long before they emigrated to their several settlements, and consequently before the birth of Moses...
Página 323 - This bark, as it appears in the Indian bazars, is commonly in pieces about a foot long, and as thick as the wrist, of a dark colour outside, and of a faint sweetish taste ; it is considered as alterative and attenuant, and is prescribed in decoction, in the quantity of 4 ounces or more twice daily.
Página 93 - It has a strong muriatic but not disagreeable smell. Its leaves are exceedingly acrid ; they are used universally by the natives to raise blisters in rheumatic pains, fevers, &c. The fresh leaves, bruised and applied to the part intended to be blistered, perform their office in the course of half an hour or a little more, and most effectually.
Página xxx - ... must be a person of strict veracity, and of the greatest sobriety and decorum ; he ought to be thoroughly skilled in all the commentaries on the Ayurveda, and be otherwise a man of sense and benevolence ; his heart must be charitable, his temper calm, and his constant study how to do good. Such a man is properly called a good physician ; and such a physician ought still daily to improve his mind by an attentive perusal of scientific books.
Página xxi - BRAHMA and the theft of the sacred books mean only, in a simpler language, that the human race was become corrupt, but that the Vedas are very ancient, and far older than other Sanscrit compositions, I will venture to assert from my own examination of them, and a comparison of their style with that of the Purans and the Dherma. Sastra. (Jones 1799a: 245 )26 Jones mythicizes certain aspects of Hinduism and historicizes those aspects that are relevant or crucial to the validation of Christianity. Jones...
Página 201 - ... pungent and sub-aromatic, and is considered as stomachic and tonic. It is given in a weak infusion to the quantity of half a teacupful in the course of the day ; the leaves are also sometimes used for the same purpose.
Página 161 - ... with the addition of a little garlic. The juice of the same part of the plant, together with that of the tender shoots, is occasionally mixed with a small portion of margosa oil, and rubbed on the tongues of infants for the purpose of sickening them and clearing their stomachs of viscid phlegm. The hakims prescribe the koopamaynee in consumption.