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'''Moodeen Sheriff''', the Anglicized form of '''Mohideen Sheriff''' (died 21 February 1891) was an Indian surgeon and practitioner of herbal medicine. He worked in [[Chennai|Madras]] and was the posthumous author of the ''Materia Medica of Madras''. He was known for his expertise and knowledge of native herbal medicine and contributed to the works on economic botany by [[George Watt (botanist)|Sir George Watt]]. He worked for many years at the Triplicane Dispensary and was conferred the title of [[Khan Bahadur]] in 1870.<br />
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Sheriff graduated from the [[Madras Medical College]] in the 1850s and worked at the Triplicane Dispensary in 1858 where he worked until his retirement on 7 July 1889. Sheriff served as "Native Surgeon" and was made an Honorary Assistant Surgeon in December 1869.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23565/page/7072/data.pdf | title=Brevet | work=London Gazette | date=14 December 1869 | page=7072 | accessdate=13 December 2018 }}</ref> Sheriff contributed notes to the ''Madras Quarterly Journal of Medicine'' and corresponded with other physicians and pharmacists of the period.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/madrasquarterly00unkngoog#page/n178/mode/1up/search/Sheriff|title=Annual report of Triplicane Dispensary, Madras, for the year 1862| author=Sheriff, Moodeen|pages=161–171|journal=The Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science|volume=8|year=1865}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1871.tb00077.x|title=Historical Notes on the Radix Galangae of Pharmacy|journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany|volume=13|issue=65|pages=20|year=1871|last1=Hanbury|first1=Daniel}}</ref> Sheriff prepared a ''Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia of India'' (1869) which included names of medicinal plants in fourteen Indian languages and was involved in selecting drugs to be exhibited at the Calcutta International Exhibition of 1883. After his death, the ''Materia Medica of Madras'' that he was working on was completed by [[David Hooper (chemist)|David Hooper]], the government quinologist at Ootacamund. A portrait was placed at Royapettah Hospital and in 1894 a prize was instituted at the Madras Medical College in his memory.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Singh, Harkishan|journal=Pharmaceutical Historian| volume= 47|issue= 2|year=2017|pages=39–42|title=Moodeen Sheriff and the 1869 Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia of India 1868}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links ==<br />
* [http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/archive/74907511 Materia Medica of Madras. Volume 1]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62166 Supplement To The Pharmacopoeia Of India (1869)]<br />
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