34? DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. — ribs — stomach— legs —hand. The author is well skilled ill Hindu Medical Science, as well as in the European system,, and his selection of Bengali Anatomical terms shews great knowledge. 150. (S. T.) Ayur Veda Darpan, 1852, Nos. 1, 2, 3, each number 1 Re., p., s. b , by Srinarayan Ray, giving extracts from the Ayur Veda, Charak, Sursruta, in Sanskrit and Bengali, on the various diseases, their cure, with quotations from the Sanskrit, the Medical formulae of which are in verse. The origi- nal is said to be the production of Brahma himself, and contains 100,000 slokes. Shri Nath proposed to give a translation in 1QO nos., at I Re. per each. 151. DISEASES, Their Cure, Ckikit$drnab 9 2 as., pp. 73, 1855 Roz. & Co. many thousand copies of this have been sold. It is taken from the tfidan, a Sanskrit medical work : treats of a number of diseases, their symptoms, remedies, — it may be usefully consulted for certain articles in the Native Materia Medica. Contains symptoms of deseases : decoctions : medi- cines. Designed to give knowledge . to those physicians who receive a fee of 4 annas for a visit. 152. (S. B.) DISEASES AND THEIR CURE, Chikitsa Ratnakar, No. 1, 2, 3 ; 4 as. per No. Su. p., 186*3, by Haladar Sen. Gives from the Sanskrit tfidan or Medical Shastras, the causes, symptoms, remedies of diseases. 153. DISEASES, Their Symptom and Cure, Chikitsd Sangraha, in the press, by Madhusudan Gupta. Treats of the various stages of disorders and the medicines applicable to them at these periods. 154. HEALTH, Rules for, Atmarakhya, by Raj Krish- na Mukarjya, Ch. p., 1849, pp. 69, 8 as. Taken from the Nidan Shastra. Treats of various ways of preserving health, of labour, bathing, oiling, food, sleep and the causes of eighty of the diseases in the country. 155. (S. T.) MATERIA MEDICA, Native ; Sar kau- modi, by Ananda Chandra Barman, r. v , 1855, pp. 210, 6 as. Translated from the Ayur Veda, one of the Medical Shas- tras. More than 20,000 copies of this work have been sold— it treats of the various diseases, their symptoms and cure,— doubtless various vegetable medicines, are referred to here, which may be of use in diseases, as Wise, in his work on Hindu medicine shows is the case with various native remedies. The price has come down from 4 Us. to 6 as.
