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'''Uday Chand Dutt''' or '''Udoy Chand Dutt''' (1834-1884) was a physician and expert on [[Ayurveda]] who served as a civil medical officer at Serampore, Bengal, India and wrote ''the Materia Medica of the Hindus'', a major translation of Sanskrit works into English, first published in 1870.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Materia Medica of the Hindus with a glossary of Indian plants by George King| author=Uday Chand Dutt| edition=Revised| year=1922| place=Calcutta|url=https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753000838638#page/n0/mode/2up}}</ref> This book included translations of a number of Sanskrit sources on traditional Indian medicine into English and later revisions included a glossary of the botanical names was provided by Sir [[George King (botanist)|George King]]. Dutt helped Sir [[George Watt (botanist)|George Watt]] in producing his ''Dictionary of the economic plants of India'' and his work is widely cited.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfTheEconomicProductsOfIndia1/Dictionary%20of%20the%20Economic%20Products%20of%20India%20-%201#page/n15/mode/2up |title=The Economic Products of India. Volume 1| author=Watt, George| year=1885| publisher=Government of India| place=Calcutta| page=x}}</ref> An edition in 1877 included revisions by Binod Lall Sen, Kaviraj (a title for native practitioners of medicine) Ashutosh Sen, and Kaviraj Pulin Krishna Sen (Kavibhushan).<ref name=bio>{{cite journal|pages=90–94 |author=Singh, Harkishan|title=Udoy Chand Dutt—Prominent Indian Materia Medica Promoter.|journal= Indian Journal of History of Science |year=2017|volume=52|issue=1|doi=10.16943/ijhs/2017/v52i1/41304}}</ref>

Dutt also wrote other books including ''Nidana: A Sanskrit System Of Pathology''. This was a translation of a Sanskrit work called ''Nidāna'' compiled by a low-caste Hindu named Madhava Kara for use by those classes which did not have access to the works of Charaka and Susruta.<ref name=bio />

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.org/stream/b21934113#page/n3/mode/2up 1877 edition]
* [https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753000838638#page/n0/mode/2up Revised edition, 1922]

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