Uday Chand Dutt or Udoy Chand Dutt (1834-1884) was a physician and expert on Ayurveda who served as a civil medical officer at Serampore, Bengal, India and wrote the Materia Medica of the Hindus, a major translation of Sanskrit works into English, first published in 1870.[1] This book included translations of a number of Sanskrit sources on traditional Indian medicine into English and later revisions included a glossary of the botanical names was provided by Sir George King. Dutt helped Sir George Watt in producing his Dictionary of the economic plants of India and his work is widely cited.[2] An edition in 1877 included revisions by Binod Lall Sen, Kaviraj (a title for native practitioners of medicine) Ashutosh Sen, and Kaviraj Pulin Krishna Sen (Kavibhushan).[3]

Dutt also wrote other books including Nidana: A Sanskrit System Of Pathology. This was a translation of a Sanskrit work called Nidāna compiled by a low-caste Hindu named Madhava Kara for use by those classes which did not have access to the works of Charaka and Susruta.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Uday Chand Dutt (1922). The Materia Medica of the Hindus with a glossary of Indian plants by George King (Revised ed.). Calcutta.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Watt, George (1885). The Economic Products of India. Volume 1. Calcutta: Government of India. p. x.
  3. 1 2 Singh, Harkishan (2017). "Udoy Chand Dutt—Prominent Indian Materia Medica Promoter". Indian Journal of History of Science. 52 (1): 90–94. doi:10.16943/ijhs/2017/v52i1/41304.
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