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Surgeon Senjee Pulney Andy’s Trials in Treating Smallpox using Leaves of Azadirachta indica in Southern India in the 1860s


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1 Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia
2 Charles Sturt University, PO Box 883, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia
 

Indian people hold Azadirachta indica (Rutales: Meliaceae) (nimba, Sanskrit), a native tree, in high veneration. Its cultural connections with the people of the Indian subcontinent are complex and intense1. References to its use exist in Caraka, Susruŧa and Brihat Samhita-s - the ancient Sanskrit medical treatises.


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  • Surgeon Senjee Pulney Andy’s Trials in Treating Smallpox using Leaves of Azadirachta indica in Southern India in the 1860s

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Ramya Raman
Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia
Anantanarayanan Raman
Charles Sturt University, PO Box 883, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia

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Indian people hold Azadirachta indica (Rutales: Meliaceae) (nimba, Sanskrit), a native tree, in high veneration. Its cultural connections with the people of the Indian subcontinent are complex and intense1. References to its use exist in Caraka, Susruŧa and Brihat Samhita-s - the ancient Sanskrit medical treatises.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv104%2Fi12%2F1720-1722