Volume 1

Essay on the productive resources of India / By J.F. Royle.

  • Royle, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1798-1858.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Essay on the productive resources of India / By J.F. Royle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    History of those Regions which, though the first that has been given to the world, will probably long remain the best. Instead of being one to be prized by mere botanists or geologists, it is likely to have the warmest admirers among the politico-economical class, whose principal care is how to increase the ‘‘ Wealth of Nations.” Its contents are of so generally-interesting a nature that it can hardly fail of obtaining a very extensive share of popularity.””——Mechanic’s Magazine. ““ We highly recommend this publication to our readers, containing, as it does, not only an ample store of information respeeting the natural productions of the Himalayas, but also the best general view of the physical features of those mag- nificent mountains.”—London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. “The work is chiefly addressed to the scientific naturalist, but contains much that is also interesting to the more general student, as well as a vast number of interesting statements regarding a most interesting portion of the globe.”—Jowrnal of the Royat Geographical Society. “This will be found to be one of the most scientific and comprehensive works of the kind that has ever been published.””—Arboretum Britannicum. “The text is rich in original details, as well as in elaborate scientific researches ;, and every thing bearing on the Materia Medica, whether as acknowledged in the schools, or as existing only in the written dispensatories of the natives of the country, is studiously noticed ”—British and Foreign Medical Review. ‘“‘Dr. LinvLey, on the subject of Geography of Plants, after referring to the works of Brown, Humboldt, De Candolle, and Schouw, refers his readers ta *““RoYLE’s most instructive Work on the Flora of Northern India, and of Cash- mere.”’—Introduction to Botany. Second Edition, p. 023. ‘* We strongly recommend this work, not only to botanists and horticulturists, but te readers generally, as full of instructive matter, agreeably placed before them, on subjects in which all are interested.”’—Loudon’s Gardener’s Magazine. Second Notice. By the same Author, AN ESSAY ON THE ANTIQUITY OF HINDOO MEDICINE ; INCLUDING AN Introductory Lecture co the Course of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, delivered at King’s-College. 8vo. 6s. 6d. boards. “‘ This very curious volume has been already so fully noticed in the different literary and medical journals, that we have only the agreeable duty of recommending it to the notice of our general and medical readers.’”’—Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, ‘* A work of immense research and erudition.””—Medico Chirurgical Review, “The existence, then, of a School of Medicine in Hindostan, prior to the age of Dioscorides, or even of Hippocrates, to the extent of this portion of knowledge, (Materia Medica,) becomes matter of demonstration. We cannot pretend to trace the variety of proofs which Dr, Roytx produces to make out his case. For this purpose he ransacks the history of Medicine, as it existed among the Persians, Arabs, and Greeks; all of whom he shews to have obtained much from the Hindoos, whose seience, therefore, must have been anterior to theirs. He brings, likewise, a number of facts, derived from Hindoo literature, to shew not only the culture of Medicine, but of Philosophy, the fine and useful arts, and Mathematics, at a very remote period. He further enters into the details of early commerce, and brings together numerous proofs that the Egyp- tians, Phenicians, Jews, and Arabs, had constant communications with India. To detail these, would be to quote the entire volume.”—Atheneum.