¡NO LIBRARY SHOULD BE WITHOUT

Indian Medicinal Plants

Containing Botanical Descriptions, Names in the Principal Vernaculars, Properties and Uses of over 1,300 Indian Plants used in Medicine by the Medical Profession all over the World.

BY

The Late Lieut.-Col. K. R. KIRTIKAR, F.L.S.,I.M.S. (Retd.), Major B. D. Basu, I.M.S. (Retd.), and AN I.C.S. (Retd.)

This work is useful to Botanists, Medical men, Forest Officers, and all those interested in the development of the economic resources of India

It contains illustrations of above 1,300 medicinal plants, on above 1,000 Royal 4to-sized lithographic plates, kept in nice portfolios in 4 vols.

The letterpress in 2 vols, over 1,500 pages.

In his letter, dated the 23rd June 1919, the Under-Secretary to Government, United

Provinces of Agra and Oudh, writes to the Manager, Panini Office :

"His Majesty's Secretary of State for India is desirous of purchasing ten copies of the work......

I am also to inform you that the Government of India has been pleased to bring the work to the notice of all the other Local Governments and Administrations."

. Patronised by His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, Government of India, Bombay, Bengal, U. P. of Agra and Oudh and several other local administrations and rulers of Indian States.

N. B.-The Ninth All-India Ayurvedic Conference and Exhibition, held at Lahore in 1918, awarded First Class Certificate, together with a Silver Medal to the Editor, Major B D. Basu, I.M.S. (Retired), for exhibiting this work at the Ninth All-Ind¡a Ayurvedic Exhibition, Lahore.

In the wellknown Tropical Diseases Bulletin of London for April 1920, in the course.

of a lengthy review of this work, A. T. G. writes :

....

"This work on Indian Medicinal Plants has appeared opportunely. The writer (of the review) recently identified a medicinal plant--of which only the varnacular name was available-by consulting this work after he had hunted elsewhere in vain............. .The book is well got up, printed on good paper, with broad margins...for those individuals and libraries, more particularly in India, that can afford it, the book should form a very useful work of reference."

In their Bibliography, on the development of Indigenous drugs, Prof. M. J. Gajjar & Mr. M. R. Engineer, of the Chemical and Technical Laboratory, Gwalior Government, write that this work

......"is the latest publication on the subject, especially useful for general information and identification of plants. The cheap feature of the work is the illustration of all possible plants by rare and original botanical drawings."

From the Address of the Chairman of the Reception Committee of the Second All-India Medical Conference

"The study of the Ayurvedic and the Unani drugs has been greatly helped by the publication in recent years of a very valuable book on India Medicinal Plants. We are indeed very grateful to Lt.-Col. Kirtikar and Major Basu for the valuable services they have rendered to the cause of medicine."

New India says:

"To real investigators In this field (of indigenous systems of medicine), the monumental work on Indian Medicinal Plants, published by the "Panini Office, Allahabad," ought to be indispensable. It is the life-work of the two doctors, Major B. D. Basu, I.M.S., and Lieutenant-Colonel K. R. Kirtikar, F.L S., I. M.S., and assisted by an I.C.S., both of whom are also Sanskrit scholars of repute. Apart from the value of the book to the medical profession, it is helpful also in tapping the resources of the country for the manufacture of drugs."

The Modern Review, in reviewing this work, writes :

"This very valuable work is neatly printed on thick art paper. The illustrations are clear and lithographed on good paper. The portfolios are beautiful."

"The Imperial and Provincial Agricultural and Forest Departments of British India should make use of the information brought together in this monumental work. All Native States should have medicinal plant gardens and pharmaceutical laboratories, and their Agricultural and Forest Departments should be provided with coples of this work. Now that it has been published, the educated section of the public should insist that all indigenous physicians of repute and all the leading pharmaceutical factories should be able to scientifically indentify the plants they use."

PANINI OFFICE, Bhuvaneswari.Ashram, Bahadurganj, Allahabad.

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