"Nidana is a Sanskrit treatise on Hindu Medicine, compiled by Madhub Kur, a Sudra, who lived many hundred years ago. It was intended for the benefit of the ordinary class of students, who, for certain reasons, had no access to the more learned works of Charaka and Susruta. It may, therefore, be accepted as one of the text-books of the Hindu Medical Schools. It gives a clear and concise account of all the diseases and injuries known to the Hindu physicians up to the time when it was written, including their diagnosis and prognosis. The whole work is evidently based on clinical experience, and, as a didactic record of facts, it is very valuable. But, for the explanations of these facts, they are often interwoven with absurd theories and doctrines which take the place of physiology and pathology. The object of this work was simply to teach diseases, leaving their treatment to be dealt with in a separate book; and it would be a great thing if we could have a similar book composed in Bengali, with the light of modern science, for the use of our vernacular medical students, That is a great want which, however, could only be supplied by oriental scholars like Baboo Udoy Chand Dutt, the learned translator of this work. As it is, the Baboo has done great service to vernacular medicine, and our best acknowledgments are due to him for it.

"Being free from barbarous interpolations and foreign words, it is calculated to chasten the language of the new vernacular medical literature. On this account we trust Government will insist on a knowledge of this work by all their licentiates in Bengali or English. In that way alone can a proper taste be created for the careful study of Bengali, the want of which is painfully apparent in many of the recently issued vernacular medical publications." -Indian Medical Gazette, January, 1874.

"The author before us belongs to the pre-university era. A good English scholar, a reputed master of the healing art, with an inquisitive turn of mind, and thoroughly alive to the merits of the indigenous system of medicine, he possesses many qualifications for expounding the principles of the Sanskrit system of medicine, and has performed well his self-elected task. In his preface to the work before us he says that it is a literal translation of the Sanskrit treatise on pathology, compiled by Madhava Kar, and generally known under the name of Nidana. It gives a pretty full account of the diseases known to the ancient Hindus, and it has been the text-book on medicine for native physicians from a long time past. With a view to enable the reader versed in English medicine readily to identify the diseases described in this work, our author, wherever it has been practicable, has given their equivalent English names in foot-notes. This translation is a valuable contribution to Indian Medical Literature." - Hindoo Patriot, October 20, 1873.

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