The indigenous drugs of India : short descriptive notices of the principal medicinal products met with in British India by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Publication date 1896 Topics Botany - India Publisher Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co PREFACE. No surer indication of progress could be cited than the awakened interest in the subject of India’s Indigenous Drugs, witnessed within the past few years. 1 In 1826 Ainslie published the Materia Medica of Hindustan; in 1844 O’Shaugnessy produced the Bengal Pharmacopoeia ; and in 1868 Waring issued the Indian Pharmacopoeia. These monumental works are replete with particulars regarding the drugs of India. They give expression to a rich store of personal investigation and to laborious compilation from an army of contemporaries, in the more direct field of botany, of whom mention need hardly be made of such names as Jones, Roxburgh, Wallich,* Buchanan -Hamilton, Griffith, Graham, Fleming, Royle and Wight.