[Rarebooks] FS: 1934 Nasal Drinking Medical Cure from India

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Nasal Drinking or a Panacea for Health"

By Narayan Das Bhatia. Published in Indore by Swarup Brothers in 1934 in 
an edition of 1000 copies.

A fascinating and detailed treatise on a system of ‘nasal drinking’, 
based on the ancient practice of Usha-pan, as worked out by the author 
after several years of experiments. In the preface his friend, professor 
Jwala Prasad Singhal, relates that the practice cured his toothache, a 
plausible enough claim, and further states that the related practice of 
‘douching the nose’ is used to prevent meningitis, a somewhat more 
dubious one. The work is illustrated with black & white photos of the 
author practicing on himself in a variety of yoga-like positions. 
Narayan das Bhatia was a professor at Daly College in Indore. A very 
uncommon book; OCLC locates only one institutional location and no 
copies were available on the internet when this was catalogued.

Hardcover. 5”x7.5”, 242 pages, 1 line illustration and 23 black & white 
illustrations on 20 plates. Minor soil, light cover wear, shadow on 
title page and facing page where a newspaper clipping was apparently 
stored at one time; French newspaper clipping about nasal drinking glued 
to the front paste-down.  $75

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