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 MEDICINE. 35 156. (E. T.) MEDICINE, PRACTICE OF,translated by P. Kumar, m. l. p., 1854. Aushadhbyedbahdrah, pp. 280, 5 Rs. Roz. & Co. The author is lecturer in medicine to the Bengali class in the Medical College, and has made thig translation from the most distinguished recent English writers on medicine, in order to rescue his countrymen from native quacks, by exhibiting to them in plain Bengali the leading principles of medicines as taught and practised in Europe. The work is disfigured by numbers of English words being introduced when vernacular ones could be easily obtained, it is also very dear. It treats of fevers, peritonites, spleanites, jaundice, cancers, colic, dysentery, cholera, rheuma- tism, apoplexy, nervous diseases, lung diseases, shin diseases ; their definition, symptoms, stages, remedies. 157. (S. T.) NATIVE MEDICINES, tbe qualities of, Drabyea Ouna, by Ishwar Chundra Bhattacharjyea, 1st ed. 1835.^ Sar. S. pp. 97, 2 as. Roz. & Co. Treats of practices affecting health, and of several hundred remedies useful for curing diseases, with quotations from the Shastras in proof. 158. MEDICAL GUIDE, Bachelor's, 1 854, pp. 358, b. m. p., 1 Re. Roz. & Co., designed to answer for natives what Buchan's Domestic Medicine has for Englishmen, gives a des- cription of the body, diseases ; their cause, symptoms, different remedies, both European and Native, the mode of preparing Medicine, Surgery, — every School library and Mofussil resi- dent should be furnished with a copy of this. 159. MATERIA MEDICA, by S. C. Karmakar. For the use of the students of the Bengali Medical Class. Roz. & Co. -160. (E. T.) PHARMACOPOEIA, London, of 1836, Aushadh Kalpdbali. Roz. & Co., 1849, pp. 244, 3 Rs. 8 as. by Madhu Sudan Gupta. Gives with the English, Latin, and Bengali names the mode of preparation of Acids, Alkalis, Cerates, Confections, Decoctions, Plasters, Infusions, Lini- ments, Metals, Tills, Powders, Syrups, Tinctures, Ointments, &c. 161. PHARMACY, Pt. 1, Aushudh Prastut Vided, by S. C. Karmakar, s. b. p. 1854, No. 1, pp. 19, 4 as. Treats of the Thermometer, of making infusions, decoctions, pills, plasters, resin, tinctures, &c. &c. 162. (E. T.) WATER CURE, Jal ChikiUd, by Prem Chand Chaudry, 1850, pp. 47,4 as. Roz. & Co. The trans- lator professes having experienced wonderful benefits froix 1