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210 Hansarajanidana, by, on aetiology.

Haritasamhita, by, is an ancient work on the nature and treatment of diseases, pharmacy, properties of various kinds of food, water, climate, and diseases of women and children. The Hindoo practitioners hold the work in high veneration.

Haritalakalpa forms a chapter of Rudrayamala, by, and describes the preparations and medicinal uses of yellow orpiment.

Hastamalka, by. 1859, on the art of preparing metallic compounds.

Hitopadesha, by, a diffuse treatise on diet and treatment of ordinary ailments.

Jvaraparajaya, by, in 1794. It is a treatise exclusively on fevers.

Kakachandeshvara, on miraculous properties of mercury.

Kumaratantra, by, king of Ceylon, on paediatrics.

Madanpalanighanta, by, on materia medica.

Madhavanidana, by, in a.c. 1331, is an esteemed treatise on diagnosis.

Mahapada, by, an ancient physician. His work treats of elephants, their breeding and diseases.

Mantratantraushadha, compiled from Kamatantra, by Shiva, on the uses of medicines prepared with the help of charms and incantations.

Muktavali, by, on the nature and properties of medicinal drugs.

Nadidarpana, a small work on pulse by.