Excerpt from Materia Indica, or Some Account of Those Articles Which Are Employed by the Hindoos and Other Eastern Nations, in Their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture, Vol. 2 IT is much to be lamented that it was ever found necessary to include the sciences, and arts, amongst those subjects which are treated Of in the sacred writings of the Hindoos; a circumstance which has been hitherto an insurmountable Obstacle to improve ment; and is, no doubt, one of the causes why me dicine in India is still sunk in a state of empirical darkness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.