Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

These effusions from a man brought up in an alien system of medicine and practising the same in the service of an alien Govern¬ ment qmay -appear strange to you, but I am a firm believer in “ancient ideals in modern life.” I do not advocate your system in detriment to the one in which I have been brought up, but I take it as one of the many phases of Eternal Truth, as one of the ■many segments of a great whole yet unknown, and, as such, I wel¬ come its revival and wish your Institute all success, With kindest regards,

Pandit Avinash Chandra Kaviratna, Calcutta ,

Believe me,

My dear Kavirajjee,

Ever yours most sincerely Nobin Chandra Dutt, Civil Medicdl Officer, Palamau.

Kidderpur, Bedford Park, CROYDON,

ENGLAND. July 1 8th, 1902.'

My dear Kaviratna Mahashaya,

* * * As I told you when you first spoke to me about yoUr desire to establish the institute, I take great interest in the project and sincerely hope it will be a success. It was a bad time for our Ayurvedic system of medicine when our countrymen first took to studying allopathic medicine. Most of them discarded our system altogether and it has not regained its old strength yet although it is gaining ground every day. The mistake our medical men made was in giving up the study of our system. What they ought to have done was to study the Western system in connection with our own and then take the best of both and make a new system. Even now the only effort that was made in this direction was by you, through the medium of your ‘-Chikitsa-sammilani,” and your effort did not receive the encouragement that it ought to have. I am anxious that our system of medicine should be properly studied and brought into harmony with modern- disco¬ veries, particularly in the direction of Surgery. Your Institute, if it receives proper support, will be sure to do this, and I heartily wish it every success.

Hoping you are quite well and wishing you every success in all your ventures,

I remain,

Yours most sincerely,

(Sd.) W. C. BONNERJEE.

Pandit Avinash Chandra Kaviratna-,

Calcutta.

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