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History of Practice of Medicine in India

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1866De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.
1906Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
1907Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.
1913​–1914The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
1914A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
1917The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....
1923​–1929History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
1965A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.
1980Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
1985Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.
1987Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.
1993Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
1994Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
1999​–2002A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.
2000Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.
2003Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
2009Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.
2011The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
2012Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.
2014Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.
2016Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.