Uday Chand Dutt

Uday Chand Dutt, also known as Udoy Chand Dutt (1834 to 1884), was a medical doctor and an expert on Ayurveda who served as a civil medical officer in Serampore, Bengal, India. He is best known for The Materia Medica of the Hindus, a major English translation of Sanskrit works on traditional Indian medicine, first published in 1870. A revised edition of 1877 added contributions by Binod Lall Sen, Kaviraj Ashutosh Sen and Kaviraj Pulin Krishna Sen. He also helped George Watt produce the Dictionary of the Economic Plants of India, and he translated Nidana, a Sanskrit system of pathology. This entry records his scholarship as a historical matter and is not medical advice.