Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

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Mons H. Le- Soudor. Librarie Etrangere 174. Boulevaise. Saint Germain ...Reg to send Rs. 32. Put me down as a subscriber to your English translation of Charaka.

Charles Rice, Esq., New York. ..Wish you every success that can recom¬ pense you for your laborious undertaking. I will eventually send you a copy of : a review I will write.

Geo. H. Clark M. A. M. D., PHILADELPHIA As 1 go oyer each fascicu lus I always arrive at one conclusion and that is that if the physicians of the present day would drop from the Pharmacopia all the Modern Drugs and Chemicals, and treat their .p.atients according to the method of Charaka, there would be less work for the undertakers, and fewer chronic invalids in the world. I look forward with pleasure to the completion of the work, for I am anxious to have it all.

W. C- Bonnerjee, Esq., 6 Park street, Calutta,...My dear Pandit Kabiratna Mahasaya...I have not yet had an opportunity of seeing either of the two noblemen of whom I spoke; when I do so, you may be sure I shall not forget promise to you about [about drawing their attention to] your excellent work.

Writing again, something after.. .An Ayurvedic physician of note .

considerable praise is due to you for your efforts to diffuse a knowledge of the scriptures of your professidn.

Faul Burtholom, M- D. Philadelphia1... I have been exceedingly struck with the profound meaning of many passages, which, indeed, go beyond anything that I have ever met before in Medical literature and find their parallel only in Lord Bacons’s reflections.

H. A. D- Phillips, Esq., C- S. Magistrate and Collector, Maimensing\..The ■translation would be most useful. The contents are interesting even to a layman.

R. 0. Dutt, Esq. C. S. C. I. E- Magistrate and Collector".. .Your . patriotic labours deserve every encouragement. You have so admirably begun .

You deserve the especial acknowledgements of the medical profession.

F. H. Skrine, Esq-, I. C. S. : — I have read Charaka-Semhita with interest. It is marvellously like Hyppocrates’ maxims in spirit and form It is wonder¬ ful to note the comparatively advanced views held by the sages of your country and how completely they had anticipated discoveries wnich we modern flatter ourselves are due to the enlightment of this age.

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