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The Taleef Shereef; Or, Indian Materia Medica

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The Taleef Shereef; Or, Indian Materia Medica

George Playfair

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Arranged letter by letter in the Persian script, the Taleef Shereef gathered India's materia medica, and George Playfair translated it for Western readers, adding observations of his own. Drug by drug, it records what Indian practitioners prescribed and why, centuries of tradition condensed. One of the earliest bridges between Indian and European medicine in English. Cross it and see both banks.

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51 chapters

  1. 1Notice
  2. 2TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  3. 3GLOSSARY.
  4. 4ERRATA.
  5. 5تاليف شريف THE TALEEF SHEREEF, OR INDIAN MATERIA MEDICA. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL, WITH ADDITIONS. ا
  6. 6ب، پ
  7. 7ت
  8. 8ج، چ
  9. 9خ
  10. 10د
  11. 11ر
  12. 12ز
  13. 13س
  14. 14ش
  15. 15ع
  16. 16غ
  17. 17ك، گ
  18. 18ل

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