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'''N. C. Paul''' (1829-1880)<ref>Broad, William (2021). '[https://books.google.gr/books?id=BGrx76leGtgC&pg=PR18&lpg=PR18&dq=%22N.+C.+PAUL+(C.+1820%E2%80%931880)%22&source=bl&ots=J4Ci_xVEvM&sig=ACfU3U3w2uSTN-qEKBg3hyedacPsEYqO1A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8op-KzYrwAhWihv0HHYKwA1IQ6AEwAnoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=%22N.%20C.%20PAUL%20(C.%201820%E2%80%931880)%22&f=false 'The "Science of Yoga The Risks and Rewards]'' p. xviii<</ref> was a 19th-century [[Bengal]]i physician and scientist. He described studies of [[physiology|physiologic changes]] in persons performing [[yoga]] and introduced yoga to a wider Western audience.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born Nobin Chunder Pal (also transcribed as Navina Chandra Pal, Nobin Chundra Pal, and Navina Candra Pala) he anglicized his name. Paul enrolled at the [[Bengal Medical College]] at [[Calcutta]] and graduated in 1841;<ref name=broad20>{{cite book |author=William J. Broad |author-link=William J. Broad |title=The Science of Yoga. |year=2012 |url=https://archive.org/details/scienceofyogaris0000broa |url-access=registration |publisher=Simon and Schuster, 2012 |page=20f |isbn=978-1-4516-4142-4 }}</ref> his name is often followed by G.B.M.C. to designate him as a graduate of the institution. Transferred to [[Benares]] (today Varanasi) he had a "commanding view of yogic life."<ref name=broad20/> As a result of his observations and studies, he published ''Treatise on Yoga Philosophy'', its first edition published in London in 1851<ref name=broad20/> (or 1850)<ref name=singleton/> and a second edition in 1882.<br />
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==''Yoga Philosophy''==<br />
Paul's book has been viewed as perhaps the first attempt to link [[Science of yoga|yoga and modern scientific medicine]].<ref name=broad20/><ref name=singleton>{{cite book| author=Mark Singleton |author-link=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) |title= Yoga Body. The Origin of Modern Posture Practice| publisher=[[Oxford University Press]], 2010 |isbn=978-0-19-539535-8 | page=52}}</ref> He defines yoga "as nothing more than prolonged sleep".<ref>N. C. Paul, 1882, page 26</ref> The treatise contains case studies of people who went into prolonged [[hibernation]]. Paul is the first to indicate that yoga induces [[hypercapnia]].<ref name=broad20/> He describes yoga positions and exercises for Raja and Hatha yoga and their benefits.<br />
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The world traveler and [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophist]] [[Helena Blavatsky]] came across the book, erroneously believing the author to be an English physician. She noted that one of his yoga acquaintances was Captain Seymour, an Englishman who became a yogi. She observed that "(t)he book produced a sensation among the representatives of medicine in India, and a lively polemic between Anglo-Indian and native journalists."<ref name=blavatsky>{{cite book| author=H. P. Blavatsky |author-link=H. P. Blavatsky |editor=Mary K. Neff | title=Personal Memoirs of H. P. Blavatsky | publisher= |isbn=978-0766132658| page=94}}</ref><br />
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==Publication==<br />
*N. C. Paul: ''Treatise on Yoga Philosophy''. E. J. Lazarus and Co., Medical Hall Press, 1882 [https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonyoga00paulgoog]<br />
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