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 LUC 31) Two different native systems of practising medicine are in vogue in the city and the district of Lucknow-viz., that of the baids, and the hakims. The baids are generally medical practitioners who profess to follow the system of Suscruta. Many of these practitioners, however are entirely ignorant of the principles laid down by the great Hindu physician, and are merely quacks who treat at random. They generally use mineral medicines, without apparently being aware of the injurious effects produced by them upon the system of the patient. I have known cases in which injury done by these quack medicines has been incalculable. There is a Hindu proverb that the skill of no physician is to be trusted unless at least one thousand patients meet death at his hands. Though these men do not possess the necessary qualifications of physicians, the people have such a blind faith in them that they would rather die than take medical aid from qualified practitioners practising any other system. The remarks I have inade above with regard to the baids apply equally, well to the hakims. Hippocratus is their great teacher. They profess respect for the teaching of the great Greek physician, but I very much doubt whether many of them have any knowledge of the truths discovered by Hippoc ratus. The hakíms generally use vegetable medicines, and believe that they produce a cooling effect upon the system, but their belief often turns out to be fallacious in the extreme. It is true that their vege- table medicines are not so injurious as the mineral medicines of the baids.