This article examines the medical life of a native physician who embraced homoeopathy despite being trained in the dominant pathy i.e. allopathy at the prestigious Calcutta Medical College in the 1860s. Mahendralal Sarkar, the physician in focus, was one of the first famous converts to homoeopathy. His seeking of an alternative option created space and legitimacy for homoeopathy. Through the journal Calcutta Journal of Medicine that Sarkar founded, he, with great ability, asserted and defended his right as a physician to decide in favour of homoeopathy. Sarkar gradually established himself as an accomplished homoeopath and was recognised as an important public figure of Calcutta. The odds and opposition he faced convinced him to embark on a great task of the cultivation of science as, in his view, the inculcation of the spirit of science was the need of the day to break the orthodoxy and mitigate prejudices of the medical profession and society at large.

本文探讨了一位本土医生的医疗生活，尽管他在 1860 年代在著名的加尔各答医学院接受了主流疗法（即对抗疗法）的培训，但仍接受顺势疗法。马亨德拉尔·萨卡（Mahendralal Sarkar）是焦点医生，他是最早皈依顺势疗法的著名医生之一。他对替代选择的寻求为顺势疗法创造了空间和合法性。通过萨卡创办的《加尔各答医学杂志》，他以极大的能力主张并捍卫了自己作为医生决定顺势疗法的权利。萨卡逐渐确立了自己作为一名出色的顺势疗法医生的地位，并被认为是加尔各答的重要公众人物。他所面临的困难和反对使他决心承担起培育科学的伟大任务，因为在他看来，灌输科学精神是打破正统观念、减轻医学界偏见的时代需要。整个社会。