CONTENTS.
Objects of the Course. Medicines supplied by Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms. Sciences connected with Materia Medica and Therapeutics, p. I..
Botany, 2. Connexion between Structure and Properties of Plants, 5. Geography of Plants in connexion with Climate, 11. Zoology, 17. Mineralogy, 19.
Natural Philosophy, 19. Chemistry, 20. Physiological Action, 21, and Therapeutical Uses of Medicines, 22. Countries whence Drugs are obtained, 23.
Means adopted for acquiring a knowledge of Asiatic Materia Medica, 25.
History of Materia Medica. Persian, 26. Arabian, 27. Greek, 29. Indian, 31. Indian Drugs known to Greeks, 32.
Arabs indebted to Hindoos for some of their knowledge of Materia Me- dica, 34. Reference to Hindoo Authors byname, 37. Quotation from Charaka, a Sanscrit Author, by Avicenna, 38.
Probability of Arabs having derived a knowledge of Chemistry from Hindoos, 39. Chemical Arts of the latter, 46.
Contents of Hindoo Medical Works, 47. Surgery, 49. Distinction between a Theoretical, a Practical, and a properly-educated Physician, 49. Diagnosis, 50. Prognosis, 50. Character of a Physician, 51. Materia Medica, 53. Pharmacy, 54.
Abstract of the Contents of the Ayur Veda and of the Susruta, Sanscrit Medical Works, by Professor H. H. Wilson, 56.
Hindoo Medicine, probably original, 62. Age of Hindoo Authors, 63. Presence of Hindoo Physicians at the Court of Harun-al-Rashid, proved by Professor Dietz, 64.
Translations from Sanscrit into Tamul, 65; Cingalese, 66 ; Tibetan Language, 66.
Chinese Medicine, and connexion between India and China, 67 ; between India and Persia, 68. Commerce of Indian Drugs, 69.
Connexion of Greeks with Persia, 70; with India, 71. Greek, Bactrian, and Indo-Scythic Coins, from the time of the Seleucidte to the fourth or fifth century after Christ, discovered in Punjab, or Northern India.
Argument for Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, from knowledge of Indian Tropical Products in Northern Climates, 73. Indian Drugs noticed by Arab Authors, 75 ; by Greeks previous to Arabs, as Paulus iEgineta, 76 ; iEtius, 77 ; Oribasius, 78 ; Galen, 79 ; Pliny, 79.
Dioscorides, 80. Indian Vegetable Products, 82 and 33. Oriental Pro- ducts known to Greeks, 92. Vegetable Products of Indian Tropical Islands not known to Greeks, 93. Animal Products mentioned by Dioscorides, 94. Indian Mineral Products, showing that the Hindoos possessed such substances as are mentioned by ancient Authors, 95.
Knowledge of Indian Products previous to the time of Dioscorides, as in Theophrastus, 105. Hippocrates, 109.
