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THIS small book on Bazaar Medicines is written with the hope that it may be useful to medical men working in Indian districts, as those in medical charge of Branch District Dispensaries, Mission Dispensaries and those in private practice far away from chemist shops.

It is of a very simple and practical nature and puts forward a number of definite prescriptions which can be made up from bazaar medicines.

During the war, when many European drugs were difficult to get and were very costly, one recently qualified medical man in charge of a Branch Dispensary told me he could not carry on his practice and dispensary without more European drugs. This showed a want of practical knowledge of bazaar medicines and led me to compile this little book.

The brief list of bazaar medicines, according to their actions given on pages, will show what a large range of practical therapeutics bazaar medicines cover. If a medical man has a good knowledge of these, he can treat many minor maladies and relieve much suffering at a very little cost.

It must be remembered that a great many of the maladies of everyday life, for which doctors are consulted and for which people come as out-patients to dispensaries, are of a minor nature, as coughs, colds, indigestion, ulcers, sore eyes, sore throats, worms. Bazaar medicines intelligently used have a sufficiently practical and wide enough range to meet most of these maladies.

There is no question that bazzar medicines are much cheaper. A bottle of European medicine costs from Rs. 2 to 8, while a bazzar medicine costs a few price. District Board Dispensaries can give a vast amount of medical relief at very little cost if bazzar medicines are intelligently and largely used. Even in such epidemics as influenza, plague, cholera and relapsing fever, bazzar drugs can give much relief.