The history of medicine in India and Burma.

THE study of the history of ancient Indian medicine in the Indian sub-continent as a special subject by practitioners of modem medicine, is of comparatively recent origin; some eminent Indian physicians, however, have interested themselves in the subject and have published short articles in the Indian medical press from time to time. Notably one or two have recently published small treatises on Indian medicine in English. In order to give a reasonably clear picture of the progress of medical science in the Indian sub-continent, I would like to present the subject under the following four main divisions. Each main division has several sub-headings: (I) Ancient Indian medicine; (II) Indian medicine in medieval times; (III) Indian medicine during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century; (IV) Progress after Independence in India (1947 to date).