Page:A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 1.djvu/145

 shield. In short, European historians of chemistry have scarcely one word to say on the indebtedness of the Arabians to the Hindus, who contributed not a little to the making of a Rases, a Serapion, or an Avicenna, who, in turn, were the chief inspirers of the European iatro-chemists down to the 17th century.

Prof. Sachau, the learned translator and editor of Albérúní's India, however, does justice to the