THIRTY FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. Adventures, Discoveries, Experiment
Subtitle: And Historical Sketches Relating to the Panjab and Cashmere
Publisher: JAY KAY BOOKS Srinagar-Kashmir
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Women College Road, Nawa Kadal Srinagar-Kashmir, 19002 (J&K) INDIA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
Description: Thirty-Five Years in the East with its long sub-title, "Adventures, Discoveries, Experiments, and Historical Sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere ; in connection with Medicine, Botany, Pharmacy, & C., together with an original Materia Medica; and a Medical Vocabulary, in four European and five Eastern Languages," by John Martin Honigberger (1795-1865), physician to the Sikh court from 1829 to 1849, was published in London in 1852. It contains, besides the author's memorabilia, interesting information about the Sikh rulers and their Court as well as about various diseases and their remedies in allopathy, homoeopathy, Ayurvedic and Unani medical systems. Divided into two volumes bound in one, it covers events up to 1846. The first volume contains, in addition to historical information, lively vignettes of Punjabi life, manners and customs ; the second which primarily deals with medicine and surgery also narrates certain contemporary events. The book includes drawings of the members of the Sikh royal family as well as of the important courtiers.