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MEDICINE. 33 ent medicines, such as jalap, rhubarb, castor oil, chiretta, calomel, mercury, &c. &c, — in mentioning a decoction of the pomegranate root as useful for worms, he states the case of a man cured by it after 9 months' illness and dis- charging a worm 30 feet long. In 1823, the Rogdntak Sdr, 3 Rs., was published by subscription ; the Editor promised the readers of it as an inducement to their taking the work, that they would acquire the power of healing diseases. There was also published about the same time the Niddn dima Prakdsha. Dr. Breton published a VOCABULARY OF MEDICAL TERMS in Persian, Sanskrit and Bengali, a work showing much research. In 1826 was published and circulated gratui- tously by the s. b. s., Uld uta Bibaran^ pp. 26, t. c. Dr. Breton on Cholera. About the same time appeared Utpati Nirbdha ; on the fetus ; extracted from the Ayur Veda. In 1833 the Ratndbali or Medical Manual was published by Prankri&hna Bishwas, of Kharda. About 1833 was published Dr. Ramsay's Rogdnla Sdr or native materia medica. 147. Brandy Baktrita, published by Uday C. Adea, 1836, pp. 99, tr. of a discourse at the opening of the Medical College, by Dr. Bramley. Treating of the nature and cause of diseases and the European mode of treating them. Some of the best writers in Bengali have been tjie Vaideas or medical caste. 1 48. (E. T.) ANATOMY, CAREY'S, Videa Haraoali, pp. 638, 6 Rs. Seb. p. 1820, Roz, & Co. Designed in 1818, to form the first part of a Bengali Encyclopaedia to consist chiefly of translations of esteemed compendiums of European art and science, there were 300 native subscribers to it — but only this part on Anatomy was published, which is a translation of the treatise or that subject in the 5th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The glossary of technical terms by the translator Felix Carey, a good Bengali scholar, is of use to translators— the work treats of Anatomy, human and comparative, and a history of the science: the bones, ligaments, teeth, spine, extremities, shoulder, arm, bones, thigh, leg, skin, nails, hair, muscles, abdomen, intestines, liver, digestion, chyle, genera- tive organs, chest, lungs, heart, brain, senses, comparative anatomy ; anatomy of a dog, cow, bird, cock, reptile, fishes, insects, worms. 149. (E. T.) ANATOMY, Sk&rir Vided, Madhusu- dan's Manual of Physiology, 1853, pp. 56, pt. 1, Roz. & Co. 1 Re. Osteology. Treats of the bones, their formation— the vertebrae — the bones of the various parts of the body — the teeth