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 REMARKS ON THE USES
 OF SOME OF THE
 BAZAAR MEDICINES
 AND
 COMMON MEDICAL PLANTS OF INDIA

 WITH A FULL INDEX OF DISEASES, INDICATING THEIR
 TREATMENT BY THESE AND OTHER AGENTS
 PROCURABLE THROUGHOUT INDIA

 TO WHICH ARE ADDED

 DIRECTIONS FOR TREATMENT IN CASES OF
 DROWNING, SNAKE-BITES, &c.

BY

EDWARD JOHN WARING, C.I.E., M.D.

 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON
 SURGEON-MAJOR (RETIRED) HER MAJESTY'S INDIAN ARMY
 EDITOR OF THE PHARMACOPŒIA OF INDIA, ETC.

_FIFTH EDITION_

 LONDON
 J. & A. CHURCHILL
 7 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET
 1897




PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.


Owing to the favour in which this work is still being held by the public
in India, as proved by the entire sale of the Fourth Edition, I have
taken upon myself to issue this, the FIFTH EDITION, with the generous
assistance of my late father's friend, J. E. T. Aitchison, M.D., C.I.E.,
to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for the time and trouble and
valuable special knowledge he has so liberally bestowed on the work.

The only important changes that occur in this Edition are the
introduction of a couple of diagrams of a clinical thermometer, with a
few notes to guide the non-professional in its use; some alterations in
the text, where subjects that had been issued in the Fourth Edition as
notes to the text are now incorporated in the text itself; and lastly,
Dr. Aitchison has more fully entered upon his treatment of small-pox
with carbolised oil.

 C. WARING.




PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.


That this little work should have reached a FOURTH EDITION may be taken
as pretty clear indication that it has met a recognised want amongst our
Indian fellow-subjects, for whose instruction and guidance it was
originally issued. To render it worthy of continued favour, and to make
it additionally useful, has been my anxious endeavour.

Of any merit which this edition may be found to possess over the
preceding one, a very large portion is due to Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison,
C.I.E., Surgeon-Major in H.M. Indian (Bengal) Medical Service, who, with
a liberality that demands my warmest thanks, placed at my disposal an
elaborate MS. commentary on the Third Edition, embodying his own
professional experience in India (extending over many years), and
supplying the vernacular names of the various drugs in the Punjábí,
Kashmírí, and Leh languages. Of this document it need hardly be said I
have availed myself largely, my only regret being that I could not
insert it _in extenso_, but to have done this would greatly have
exceeded the prescribed limits of the work. As it is, Dr. Aitchison has
laid me under a vast obligation, which I am only too happy to have this
opportunity of acknowledging.

Five new articles have been added to the List of Drugs: two at the
suggestion of Dr. Aitchison; namely, (1) Sugar, and (2) Kerosene Oil,
which latter, owing to its extensive use for lighting purposes during
the past few years, is now obtainable in nearly every bazaar in the
country; the other three being the (3) Cinchona Febrifuge (Quinetum),
(4) Petroleum, and (5) Rock Salt. The various ways in which these
articles may be utilised in the treatment of disease will be found under
their respective headings in the "Addenda," p. 171, _et seq._

In addition to these there have been introduced notices of Indian Hemp
(Gunjah) smoking in the treatment of Tetanus, of the antiscorbutic
properties of Ámchur (dried Mangoes), the lactifuge powers of Sambac