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About The Book : Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine by T A Wise intends to describe Hindu science of medicine. In the sacred books of Hindus there is a system of medicine that was prepared at a very early period which appears to form no part of the medical sciences, a system which Hindus claim an antiquity for. This work deals with such medical science. The author has translated and compared a number of manuscripts. This work is a collection of five books. Book 1 is History of Medicine, Book 2 is Anatomy and Physiology, Book 3 is Therapeutics, Book 4 is Practice of Physic., and Book 5 is Midwifery and Diseases of women and children. About The Author : Dr Thomas Alexander Wise MD HEICS FRSE FRCS FRCPE (1802-1889) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, medical author, polymath and collector. He travelled in India, Tibet, China and Japan. He specialised in Tibetan maps and artefacts. He was founder and first Principal of the Hooghly Mohsin College in 1834 and founder of the Hooghly Imambarah Hospital. He was born in or near Dundee on 13 June 1802 the second son of Thomas Wise of Hillbank in Forfarshire. His father had been a physician in Jamaica. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MD in 1824. He went to India with the Indian Medical Service and worked first in Dum Dum. This brought him closer to his two brothers already in India: Josiah Patrick wise, a merchant, and an older brother serving in the East India Company. He retired on health grounds in 1851 and returned to Scotland. In 1855 he was living at 17 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's New Town. He also had property at Inchyra near Dundee. In 1854 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was John Hughes Bennett. He later moved to London and died in Norwood in London on 23 July 1889. He is buried in West Norwood Cemetery. Publications:1.Commentary of the Hindu System of Medicine (1845 republished 1860) 2.Diseases of the Eye (1847) 3.Practical Remarks on Insanity in Bengal (1852) 4.Essay on the Pathology of the Blood (1858) 5.Cholera, its Symptoms, Causes and Remedies (1864)6.The History of Medicine (1867).