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PREFACE. This little work owes its origin to the following circumstances : The society of physicians at SookEAs Street, Muddon Mitter's Lane in Calcutta, found with deep regret the opprobrium cast upon the treatment made by KobiRAJAs and on the Hindoo Medical Science in general. Some even suppose that AyuRVEDA only treats of the administration of some very unpalatable panchons fit only for savage state of society but wholly unsuited to civilized men. Others remark that the Hindoo system subjects poor patients, already suffering from the pains of disease, to the agonies of starvation and draught, and seldom, if ever, effect a cure. They extol the European mode of treatment as the most effectual and, at the same time, most agreeable to the patient. While a European practitioner would allow copious Gooling drinks to quench the thirst and would apply ice or cold water on the burning head, a kabiraj would scarcely moisten the lips and tongue with a pallet of wet anisced and apply hot sand to the aching head. The depriciators of Hindoo Modicine have found also that most of the persons who pass under the name of Kobiraj or practitioners of Hindoo Medicine are ignorant men who having with great difficulty learnt by roto a few Sanserit slokas repeat them as slokas from the AYURVEDA which are no