Published March, 2013
By Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi and Francis Gladwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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First published in 1793, this materia medica - a book of collected knowledge about medicines and their properties - presents information on over 1,000 medicines used in India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It contains entries from an earlier version in Persian, Arabic and Hindi, along with English translations.

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