Ayurveda in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The period of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is considered as modern period. During this period India passed from medieval to modern age. This period witnessed a remarkable beginning of intellectual activities in India. A number of books on Ayurveda were written. Many British officials and physicians studied the Indian medicine and published their works. A new branch of history of Avur ve d a was developed. Ayurvedic pharmacies on the lines of the pharrnac.vs of modern medicine were s tar t ed , A brief account of all these developments in the field of Ayurveda has been presented in
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine
دوره 20 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990