CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

THE SNAKE AND THE MIRROR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the book which he took beneath the table?
A
‘’The Life of a Doctor”
B
‘’Living Alone in a Rented room”
C
‘’Materia Medica”
D
‘’History of Modern Surgery”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -And he opened the box under the table and took out a book named ‘Materia Medica’. He kept it on the same table on which a lamp, a mirror and a small comb was lying.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dioscorides’s De materia medica The Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides, of Anazarbus in Asia Minor, wrote a five-volume treatise concerning medical matters, entitled in Greek or De materia medica in Latin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published in two volumes in 1805, Hahnemann’s Latin work Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum is the first materia medica in the history of homoeopathy. This article examines Hahnemann’s use of his own published works in his early medical practice, by focusing on a single patient file from the medical casebooks.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Study of Materia Medica, authored by N. M. Choudhuri, is a collection of lectures where the author has given readers a brief description of drugs in a story format.

Detailed explanation-5: -Charles Frick: Professor of Materia Medica 1823-1860.

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