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122 result of actual investigation carried on in the forests such as Mamanjaka (Hipian orientali), Jhullapushpa (Byophytum sensitivum), Keetamari (Aristolochia bracteata) ; Utkantaka (Echinops echinatus), Bhringaraja (Eclipta alba), etc.

Vaidya Moreshvara of Ahmednagar, in the early part of the seventeenth century incorporated in his "Vaidyamrita" some Persian drugs, as Isphgul (Plantago Ispaghula) and others.

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, a well-known physician of Benares composed a large work called "Atankatimirabhaskara," an important work on the Indian healing art. In the chapter on Materia Medica, he has not only availed himself of the labours of all who had gone before him, but has thrown a new light on some of them. Tea is one of the few new drugs he has embodied in his work. His great-grandson, Vaidya Sohamji, was one of the most scholarly and celebrated physicians in Northern India. He died very recently.

About the middle of the present century, that is to say in 1867, Pandit Vishnu Vasudev Godbole published his "Nighantaratnakara." It is a very popular work, as it contains an epitome of all the previous treatises on Materia Medica,