Kausar Chandpuri

Kausar Chandpuri was an Indian Unani physician and Urdu writer, born on 8 August 1900 and died on 13 June 1990. Alongside his work in Unani medicine, a traditional system of healing practised in South Asia, he gained repute as a novelist, short story writer and literary critic in Urdu. He is a good example of a practitioner whose public reputation rests on both a medical and a literary career. The lead of the source gives no details of his training or clinical work, so this entry records only what it states and is not medical advice.